Word: holstein
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...claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...
...married Count Kuno von Rantzau, scion of a distinguished Schleswig-Holstein house. She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg. Her father's triumphs up to that time, after the peace of Vienna, after "1870", had brought Europe literally to the feet of the Bismarcks. But typhus fever swept away her lover, so she married Count Rantzu, who later was German Ambassador to Holland...
...years earlier the present ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Gliicksburg had displaced the Oldenburgs upon the Danish throne. The Oldenburgs, notably Frederik VI, had been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Queen Alexandra, although usually described as "the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark," was not, curiously enough, born of the blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses...
...paid for a Holstein bull, and once a Jersey sire brought $60 000, but never had such a price been paid for a fine specimen of th« breed called Shorthorn...