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...consulted her mother-in-law, Princess Margareta, of the German House of Hesse, about the sentimental privilege. The 74-year-old sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II had hesitated; there were complications. Friedrichshof, her turreted, 80-room castle near the Hessian town of Kronberg, was overrun with American officers who seemed to be using it for a Bierhalle while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Something Borrowed ... | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Something Borrowed ... | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...Dearborn, Mich., Mrs. Stella Maude Kronberg spied a dog struggling among the ice floes in River Rouge. She got out her boat, spent two hours smashing her way through the ice, pulled back to shore with the dog in her arms. Once there, it bit her cheek and scampered off. She died of rabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Near Elsinore, Denmark, stands austere, venerable Kronberg Castle. It was here that mournful Danish Prince Hamlet lived his strange interlude of sorrow, yearned for the sad Ophelia. It was here they imprisoned Caroline Matilda, idiot King Christian VII's "Queen of Tears." As Elsinore grows, imports new customs, machinery, the castle remains apart. About its solid gothic structure there is an air of infinite age and sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In the State of Denmark | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...stately halls of Kronberg castle there was last week babbling in many tongues, laughter, chatter, applause. Two thousand delegates to the International Educationists' Congress fought for room in the old knights' hall. Those who could not get in scurried off to the great privy council hall where loud speakers squawked preparatory to relaying speeches from the knights' hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In the State of Denmark | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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