Word: eitel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
...upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
Chivalry. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of Wilhelm II, resigned last week as Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Malta. Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Grand Master ad interim, accepted the Prince's resignation with the following eulogy: "Your Royal Highness' resignation is accepted because our Grand Master must be 'as white as the lilies of the field [and Prince Eitel has just divorced sensationally his wife (TIME, Nov. 1)]. .-. . Your honor is unstained; your chivalry alone . . . prompted your decision...
Amid a frenzy of monarchial loyalty the German knights elected Prince Eitel to honorary membership in their order, and prepared to elect as Grand Master Prince Adalbert, third son of Wilhelm of Doom...
Divorced. Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, by the Princess, Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, 47, at Berlin (TIME, Oct. 4). Both intend to remarry shortly, the Princess's choice, among conflicting reports, favoring a police lieutenant, one Von Hedemann...