Word: prussia
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...their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria, the visiting officers and nobles who profaned rustic Masses by singing Deutschland über alles before the Te Deum...
Married. Princess Henriette Schönaich-Carolath, 22, daughter of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern's second wife Princess Hermine; and Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia, 23, son of the ex-Kaiser's sixth son, Prince Joachim Franz Humbert; at Doorn...
...doddering old Kaiser Wilhelm's spruce young grandsons, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, finding himself in England at outbreak of war, streaked for the Scottish Highlands to stay with his friends, the scrawny Duke and beauteous Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury. At the Corona tion in 1937 the Duchess helped to hold the canopy over the Queen. As Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland the Duke has as his subordinate (Deputy Governor) the Queen's father, the Earl of Strathmore. The Duke's sister is the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George...
That Prince Friedrich of Prussia should lie snug in a household so close to the British Royal Family was not to be endured in wartime, more especially since the Duke had for years spoken highly in Mayfair drawing rooms of what a good job Hitler was doing in Germany. So three weeks ago Prince Friedrich was moved to an ordinary internment camp. Last week London learned that the King had been graciously pleased to discharge the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury from his sinecure on May 10 last and appoint the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon to be Lord Steward...
Prince Frederick of Prussia, 28, favorite grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and honored guest at many a recent London party, was interned in England...