Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, one-time Imperator...
Reply. The Grand Duke Nikolai, now 70 and prudently aware of his impotence, answered...
Vexed. At Coburg, where the Grand Duke Cyril (TiME, Dec. 10, 1923) has openly proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and reigns over a mimic court, both the action of the emigres in disregarding Cyril's claims and the reply of the Grand Duke Nikolai, likewise ignoring him, touched off sulphurous words of scorn...
Conversion. Queen Marie of Roumania, British reared daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring...
...yacht is the Valfreya, built for Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...