Word: sigmaringen
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...Army; his duchies of Pomerania and Silesia were being claimed by the Warsaw Government of Poland (see above). It seemed only a question of time until all the $17,000,000 worth of Hohenzollern land in Germany would pass out of the family-perhaps, too, the rocky eyrie at Sigmaringen, from which the Hohenzollerns originally came, and which the Nazis, with creditable irony, had assigned to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and other Vichyites as the seat of their "Government in Exile...
...which shaped his return last week was revealed at Paris by his aide Captain Paul Dimitrescu who accompanied him to Munich. The captain said that Carol, responding to a telegram from his mother Dowager Queen Marie, had packed up to go and meet her for a "family council" at Sigmaringen in Germany, home of Carol's cousin Prince Friedrich, "head of the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern...
...died at the Castelui Palace, in the arms of Queen Marie. "I feel so tired," said Ferdinand, "so tired. . . and yet I feel no pain." Thus six years of acute suffering from a cancerous growth were ended, at last, for His Majesty Ferdinand Victor Albert Mainrad von Hohen-zollern-Sigmaringen, King of Rumania, and successor to the Tsars of Russia as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre...
...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...
...although she had announced her intention of remaining there the rest of the winter with her infant son, Crown Prince Mihai. Reputedly King Ferdinand, wracked by illness, had suddenly indulged the whim of an invalid and recalled the Princess. The King's brother, Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, also was to arrive last week at Bucharest...