Word: electress
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...that he's still not too sure of the marriage." Small wonder. The marriage in question was Kress's gift to the National Gallery of 416 paintings and 35 sculptures from his own beloved collection-the beginning of the biggest art giveaway program since the Palatine Electress Anna Maria Ludovica, a Medici, gave her family's vast collection to the state of Tuscany...
...members of virtually every royal house, regnant or deposed, in Europe are related to Europe's most prospering crown, Britain's. Among them is Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, who is descended from King James I's granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and thereby legally entitled to ascend the British throne -provided that the 60-odd heirs who precede him all die. Last week, after a year of litigation, the British court of appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication...
...rhubarb, there the skin of a black fox or a sable. Only twice does he give away an ermine, once to the Queen of Holland, once to a wench who satisfies him. At Riga he is chased away from the fortifications. At Königsberg he makes the Grand Electress blush, argues with Leibnitz, is trained in gunnery. At Berlin he rapes the Duchess of Mecklenburg. In Holland he learns anatomy and ship building. At Vienna he gets word of a revolution in Russia...
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