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Last week at the memorial services in Frankfurt-am-Main there were no brothers or sisters. Her niece. Princess Victoria Louise, was there with the ex-Crown Prince and Prince Eitel Friedrich. With the death of Sophie there remained in the European deck only 17 queens, ten in play, seven in the discard...
...Ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria was in Bayreuth as usual last week. So was ex-Crown Princess Cäcilie of Germany, Prince Wilhelm of Wied who was reigning Prince of Albania for a few months in 1914; the Grand Duke of Hesse and a scattering of Russian, Greek and German nobility and ex-nobility. The weather was bad. Toscanini had his old rheumatism again. Many tickets had been cancelled; prices for room & board were reduced. The Festspielhaus restaurant had been "very tastefully decorated." Then enough people bought tickets at the last minute to fill the house, the weather cleared...
...first time since the War, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm strutted about Potsdam in uniform. He, his eldest son and his brother Eitel, attended the centenary of the founding of the non-commissioned officers' school, after which a war memorial was unveiled and the troops paraded once again before a scion of the House of Hohenzollern. Monarchist flags were everywhere...
...When Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was married in 1905, Prussian cities banded together and ordered a wedding present of a set of silver table decorations. The present was so elaborate that more than ten years were were required to complete the order. When it was finished, however, the Crown Princess was unable to take over the present and had it deposited for safe-keeping in the vaults of the Deutsche Bank. A few weeks ago, the ex-Crown Princess tried to obtain possession of the present, but the matter was referred to the Berlin Council which, last week, split violently...
According to Berlin despatches, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm has completed a book, shortly to be published, entitled I Seek the Truth. It is allegedly an attempt to disprove the charge that Germany was responsible...