Word: neburger
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...death from an apoplectic stroke of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Duke of Cumberland until 1917 (when King George canceled the British titles of German Princes who supported the Triple Entente against the British Empire in the War), a single link in the chain of the history of the British Royal Family has been severed...
...succeeded by his son as George V of Hanover. In 1866, as one of the consequences of the Austro-Prussian War, Hanover was annexed by Prussia and King George was deposed. Twelve years later he died and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who, however, still claimed and was generally known by the British title of Duke of Cumberland. This man, a great-grandson of George III of Britain, second cousin once removed of King George V and second cousin of Queen Mary, is the gentleman who was proud to hold a British...