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Word: frieherr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. When, in 1922, the Baron's wife sued him for divorce, she named Princess Charlotte-who was reported to have said blithely on the witness stand: "My husband knew everything. I swear it with the greatest possible pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Virtuous Prince | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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