Word: wieringen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that large portions of the Majority Socialists and the Social Democrats could be brought to back a monarchist coup. Although this is not an exact indication of monarchical strength in Germany, it is a sound enough basis from which to show that the activities of the ex-Crown Prince Wieringen at are not without significance...
...Crown Prince of Germany, often alluded to as "Little Willie," celebrated his forty-first birthday on the Isle of Wieringen (off the coast of North Holland) by giving the inhabitants signed photographs, souvenirs, sketches drawn by himself...
...world has heaped unbounded execrations upon this unlucky being. He was in fact no better and no worse than the average young cavalry subaltern. ... He had considerable personal charm, which he lavished principally on the fairer sex, but which in darker days has captivated the juvenile population of Wieringen...