Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delay in making the attempt to restore the monarchy is caused only by disagreement as to who shall be called to the Imperial throne. The Kaiser is unlikely because of his universal unpopularity; the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was believed to have again positively refused the honor; Crown Prince Rupprecht, virtual King of Bavaria, is barred because he is a Catholic; the latest known plan was to place the eldest son of the ex-Crown Prince (Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf) on the throne with a regency for Friedrich Wilhelm...
...possessed middle-aged man wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, his adjutant, Major von Muldner, Burgomaster Kolff of Wieringen, a captain of gendarmes and the ex-crown Prince's servant to the German frontier...
...said good-bye to the captain of gendarmes. At the frontier he said good-bye to the Burgomaster, then passed on into the Fatherland. Arriving in Hanover, the ex-Crown Prince visited Germany's famed Generalfeldmarschall, von Hindenburg. His visit lasted only half an hour, after which Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, choosing the sideways and byways in order to escape detection, sped on toward his destination, which was reputed to be his beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited by leading citizens dressed in Prince Albert coats and high...
...German Government instructed its Amsterdam Consul to issue a visa to former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, if he applied for one. The ex-Crown Princess Cecilie sent the following telegram to her children at Oels in Upper Silesia: " Happy tidings. Father is coming home...
Apparently the Government gave Prince Friedrich Wilhelm permission to return for Christmas only, but rumor has it that once the Prince returns to his Fatherland his exile will be at an end. At the time of receiving permission to return he was ill in bed with influenza. Nothing was known as to the date of his departure...