Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week newsgatherers broke down the reticence of one of the few living people who really know what happened to Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg-a gentle 76-year-old lady, Frau Katharina Schratt...
Married. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, second eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg, aviator, onetime employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in the palace of Pelesch, Sinaia, Rumania. Girl & Boy Scouts held the bride's train. Dowager Queen Marie wept immoderately. In the middle of the ceremony one of the tall candles fell off the altar, a brown butterfly fluttered over the bride's head. These were considered ill omens...
...imminent marriage in Bucharest of Princess Ileana of Rumania and Prince Anton von Habsburg, the bride's sister-in-law, Queen Helen of Rumania would be obliged to 1) appear with her eccentric, unfaithful husband King Carol, or 2) hide away. Last week she avoided both embarrassments by going to the home of her mother, onetime Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece, at Ascot, England. In October she will return to Bucharest for her son, Prince Mihai's tenth birthday...
Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme by Conductor Clemens Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A Habsburg turned conductor gives keen edge to music of a rare, satirical cast...
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...