Word: archduchess
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...Died. Archduchess Maria Dorothea Amelia of Austria, 65, relict of the late pretender to the French throne, Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans; after long illness; in Budapest...
Died. Friedrich August III, 66, onetime gay king of Saxony; of heart disease; in his castle, Sibyllenort, near Breslau, Silesia. Unconventional, Catholic, he was popular with his Protestant subjects. While he was crown prince, his wife, onetime Archduchess of Austria, eloped with the French tutor of his royal children. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. Said he: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Several years later, cheered by a crowd in a railroad station, he stuck his head out the window and shouted...
...Affair of State. It seems that the Archduke and Archduchess had been unhappily married for ten years without issue. So the populace demanded an heir and the wily Prime Minister persuaded both rulers that he would provide the means, a captain who had three children. But the Archduchess falls in love with a lieutenant (the captain's three children had been got by the Archduke anyhow), so in the end everybody is made happy: the people, the Prime Minister, the Archduchess & lieutenant, the Archduke & captain's wife, the dowager duchess. The latter's part is played...
...Belgium, knelt before him, acknowledged him as the legitimate King of Hungary, swore fealty (TIME, June 2). In Budapest it was at first assumed that this astounding act must be the result of some particularly devious deal between the Ottoists and the Albrechtists. Last week amid the prostration of Archduchess Isabella the truth came...
Month ago Archduchess Isabella's suave Majordomo scouted rumors that the Archduke Albrecht was thinking of marrying one Frau Kallay who was getting a divorce, broadly hinted that she would become his mistress. This of course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...