Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Their Royal Highnesses' innkeeper: "The Prince was humming a little song to himself when he greeted his fiancee this morning before breakfast. The Princess was radiant. We noticed yesterday that the Princess was wearing an engagement ring. So interested were the people of Salzburg that a rumor at once started that the Princess and Prince are married. That, of course, is ridiculous...
Inspector Evans warned correspondents that "To speak to them would be a violation of a tradition of the Royal Family." Prince George, however, was too happy to stand upon tradition. With Princess Marina on his arm he cried: "The cat's out of the bag! It was all sudden and unexpected. I don't know when the wedding will be but we're both most happy...
...Even Prince George's visit to Bled was a complete surprise!" chimed in Princess Marina. Then, with a shy glance at Prince George: "So was his proposal at Bohinska Lake. I expect the wedding will be in November...
...left Countess d'Agoult and met her successor, the cigar-smoking Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. Although love affairs continued to play through his life like tarantellas, she remained his nominal mistress until his death. Only a last minute refusal from Rome to grant her a divorce prevented their marriage...
Shortly after he met his Princess, Liszt, at 36, amazingly gave up his fabulous concert playing, started an entirely new musical life during which he earned not a cent from playing or teaching. He had accepted a position as conductor and musical director to the Grand-Ducal Court at Weimar. To Liszt that meant two things?presenting the music of Wagner who was then penniless and unrecognized; composing music...