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Word: ileana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Leisure Class | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Queen's Choice. Rich, suave, 70-year-old Prince Stirbey was the longtime lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, the mortal foe of her moody son, ex-King Carol, the presumed father of her youngest daughter, Ileana.* Now the loyal aging go-between was embarked on one last attempt to save the trembling kingdom for his loved liege's grandson, young King Mihai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Envoy Extraordinary | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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