Word: meiningen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich...
Finally in 1951, at 38, he married Germany's Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. Settling outside Munich in the village of Pocking, Otto traveled often to Spain, where he was honorary president of the Franco-backed European Documentation and Information Center, an organization founded in 1952 to bring politically isolated Spain into closer relations with the rest of Europe. His membership in this society and his friendship with Franco convinced Austrian Socialists that his ultimate aim was the re-establishment of an auto cratic monarchy in Austria...