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...years ago King Alexander I, son of King Peter and great-grandson of Kara George (Black George) Petrovitch, founder of the dynasty, married Princess Marie of Rumania, a daughter of Queen Marie...
Sivavougse Kunjara, Prince of Siam is expected to arrive in Cambridge in a short time to take up his studies in the University. The Prince, a great-grandson of a former king of Siam and son of Phya Sri Krioakara, lord chamberlain of Siam, arrived Thursday in Seattle from the Far East...
Engaged. Miss Marion Choate (Manhattan), granddaughter of the late Joseph H. Choate, diplomatist, to Charles B. Harding (Manhattan), great-grandson of the late Jay Cooke, Civil War financier. She attended Foxcroft; he, Groton...
...blood flows in the Prince's veins, though there can be little of it. "The mysterious Colonel Elston," as he is generally termed, because little is known of him. went to Russia in the 17th Century and gained the friendship and confidence of Peter the Great. Later General Felix Nicholaievitch Elston great-grandson of Colonel Elston, married the heiress of the last Count of Sumarokov and received permission from Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to use the name of Sumarokov-Elston. It was their son who married Princess Yusupov, the sole heiress of the fabulously rich and eccentric Prince...
...Hanover was annexed by Prussia and King George was deposed. Twelve years later he died and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who, however, still claimed and was generally known by the British title of Duke of Cumberland. This man, a great-grandson of George III of Britain, second cousin once removed of King George V and second cousin of Queen Mary, is the gentleman who was proud to hold a British title but " too proud " to fight for it. Thus by depriving him of his title did the head of the House...