Word: snagov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol...
...exiling his brother, cutting off his income. But on advice from his ministers that Prince Nicholas was gaining great popularity with younger army officers, he thought better of it, decided to award Nicholas an annual income of $36,000 and allowed him to retire to his model farm at Snagov. It was announced that Prince Nicholas would receive the commoner's name of Nicholas Brosteanu...
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