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...Russian front. During the war, he said, he had served as a Wehrmacht paratrooper in a company commanded by Captain Fritz Roessler. As Dr. Richter told it, Roessler had been killed in the Ukraine. He had personally helped bury him, and had promised to take care of his widow and orphaned children...
...From his widow came a confident retort: nothing to it, really. "Jacques changed his name because his family was ashamed to have him in politics"; his father had wanted him to take up some respectable career like wine making. Jacques had rebelled and had gone into politics, using his underground resistance name...
This should be certified as a strictly ancient chestnut. For comparison, see A Fickle Widow, a i sth century Chinese story by an unknown author...
...shifts, four at a time, one at each corner of the coffin. All next day and the day after, villagers filed silently past to pay their last respects to their King and squire as he lay in the simple casket. Three wreaths lay on the coffin: one from his widow, one from his younger daughter, one from Britain's Queen. The last, a white circle of lilies of the valley, camellias, carnations and hyacinths, was marked: "Darling Papa, from your loving and devoted daughter and son-in-law, Lilibet, Philip...
Summoned to the King's chamber by the news, the King's widow, dry-eyed but showing the strain of her shock, leaned over his bed to kiss his placid forehead. "We must tell Elizabeth," she said, a moment later. Then she corrected herself. "We must tell the Queen...