Word: pollenza
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...wife found a twelve-room villa, paid for it by selling $56,000 worth of jewels. From the little king's personal fortune in England (estimated at $6,300,000) the British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later...
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