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Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers...
...consulted her mother-in-law, Princess Margareta, of the German House of Hesse, about the sentimental privilege. The 74-year-old sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II had hesitated; there were complications. Friedrichshof, her turreted, 80-room castle near the Hessian town of Kronberg, was overrun with American officers who seemed to be using it for a Bierhalle while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried...
Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
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