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Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg...
Engaged. Dr. Maximilian Hohenberg, 24, eldest son of the assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by his morganatic wife; to Elizabeth, Countess von Waldburg. As everyone knows, the children of a morganatic marriage are legitimate and the marriage, though it confers no rank upon the lesser party, is valid to the extent of precluding any other legal union while it exists. Individuals such as "Prince Louis de Bourbon," self-styled "brother of the King of Spain," often inform gullible pressmen that they are the result of a morganatic union, though another term would be more appropriate...
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