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Marriage Revealed. Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, 34, brother of former King Peter II, now a London insurance broker; and German-born Princess Kira of Leiningen, 33; he for the second time; at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, "some time last year," in a ceremony that the publicityshy prince refrained from announcing until eight days after Kira bore him a son March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace at Amorbach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: An Eclipse of Princes | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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