Word: princedoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before his death in 1560, at 94, the fleets of this fierce Genoese had many times confirmed his native city as master of the Mediterranean. Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again...
...from that ancestor, who was paid off in 1705 with the principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established it became, through a territorial reshuffle, extinct. Only title thus left to Churchill by his warrior forebear: Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (a tired old title not recognized in England...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
...accounted for almost $5,000,000 of his princely state funds, the government ordered the Gaekwar stripped of all royal titles, plus his half-million-dollar annual pension (leaving him with an annual income estimated as high as $8,000,000). The former ruler of a princedom of 8,000 square miles and some 3,000,000 subjects has a month in which to appeal the decision...