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Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria...
...bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
Married. Princess Cecilia of Germany, 31, daughter of German ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, like everybody else, was house-hunting. Oh, he still had his 80-room castle near Hechingen, but it was "too impractical." He wanted a farm. And he had other worries: his sons. Mused 64-year-old "Willie," who has principally served his country by waiting to be called back to rule it: "You know, the Princes should take up some kind of employment...
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 65, chinless favorite of World War I caricaturists, received the press at his villa in Hechingen, let it be known that he missed the horses and golf of dear old Potsdam, that the House of Hohenzollern was ready to trot onstage at a moment's notice. Queried newsmen: did he mean son Louis Ferdinand? "Myself or my son," he corrected...
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