Word: hohenzollern
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...bouncy Princess Birgitta went to West Germany to improve her German and indulge her zest for sports. While in Munich, Birgitta, 23, who teaches gymnastics, met a young man ideally equipped to help her with both projects. A skilled gymnast himself, Germany's rugged Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, is mad for sports, will soon get his doctor's degree from the University of Munich in the fresh-air field of archaeology - which is also the lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited to Sweden for a royal elk hunt...
...many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach of the Pierson College baseball team whose head is filled with major-league...
...Rumania, 62, beauteous, dark-haired sister of the late King Carol II of Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness and desertion, pouting, "I never...
...young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
...fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern who had something to do with bayoneting Belgian babies. Most of all, it will shake the beliefs of those who are still under the impression that the Kaiser personally started World...