Word: majella
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...ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, its twelfth reigning prince, observed his 57th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne...
...soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...
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