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...everyone knows the onetime Kaiserin died at Doorn (April 11, 1921). Reputedly Wilhelm II refers to his present consort, Princess Hermine, as "Her Majesty the Empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Golden Mead | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Documents and other evidence thus collected enabled the Polizei to announce proudly that they had nipped a most elaborate Monarchist Putsch. "Exhibit A" was a large autographed portrait of Wilhelm of Doorn, with a note of glowing encouragement attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Luther Rests | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Reichstag proceedings upon this point last week were, however, of such a routine nature that only Deputy Scheidemann (Socialist) spoke. He accused Wilhelm of Doorn of high treason, charging that he betrayed secrets of importance to the late Tsar Nicholas. During Herr Scheidemann's tirade, many Deputies of the Right quietly left the hall-heeded not when he went on to accuse Wilhelm's sympathizers of "deception, corruption, and doglike servility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Confiscation Question | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...former court jeweler of Wilhelm II confessed to the police that the crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Kaiserin's Crown | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Died. Rt. Hon. Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, 71, designer of the ill fated Titanic, friend of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he visited recently at Doorn (TIME, Nov. 30, GERMANY), retired General Manager of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff, created a member of the Privy Council by Edward VII; at London, after prophesying his death some weeks ago and ordering that the Merry Widow Waltz be played at his funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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