Word: gotha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty young poetess, Helen Vacarescu; according to one version he eloped to Venice and renounced his right to the throne. Finally persuaded by his uncle, old King Carol I, to return to Bucharest, he was then married to Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
Slumberous and soporific as the drone of a bumble bee is the atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor in 1917. Therefore last week European socialites were agog to see what kind of dinner the Duke of Coburg would give in Nürnberg for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg...
Windsor, whose family name at his birth was Saxe-Coburg mid Gotha, spoke German like a native with Dr. Ley who promptly drove Germany's guests to the Kaiserhof Hotel, generally considered Berlin's No. i Nazi rendezvous. There Dr. Ley presented a huge box of chocolates with card addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor"-although the Duchess has not yet been raised by His Britannic Majesty to the rank of Royal Highness...
...evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories, the telephone directories, and the membership lists of the Académic, the Shakespeare societies, and the Goethe-Verein...
...Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland and a Gruppenführer of Nazi Storm Troops...