Word: poglodowska
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Died. Baroness Louise Poglodowska, once famed beauty of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging...
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