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Married. Princess Christine Margarethe of Hesse, 23, beauteous niece of Britain's Duke of Edinburgh; and Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 27, brother of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia; in Kronberg. Germany...
Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers...
...evidence was a $500,000 display of jewels looted from the House of Hesse's Kronberg Castle (TIME, June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...
...Army's Criminal Investigation Division had narrowed the suspects to four members of Kronberg's habitu...
...cottage near Kronberg, weary Princess Margareta was happy to forego the details to get the jewels back. Even Princess Sophie, who had gone ahead with the wedding, though blushing for lack of decoration, felt a little better about the red-faced U.S. Army...