PEOPLE IN THE LIMELIGHT
The Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg is on a visit to London with the Prince Consort and her little 12-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Prince Jean, the heir-apparent, is being educated in England at Ampleforth. the Roman Catholic public school in the north. The war, one is reminded, put Grand Duchess Charlotte on the throne of this little state. In 1914 the neutrality of Luxembourg, like that of Belgium, was violated by the Germans; but, unlike Belgium, she was unable to offer resistance; her army was less than 300 strong. As soon as the war was over Marie Adelaide, then Grand Duchess, was compelled to abdicate in favour of her sister. She was accused of being pro-German —though it was no fault of hers that Germany had occupied her state. Marie Adelaide, clad in a simple black dress, left for ever her ducal throne for a convent cell with the Carmelites in Italy. She died just 10 years ago, under 30 years of age. The Grand Duchess Charlotte married Prince' Felix of Bourbon Parma, brother of the former Empress Zita of Austria. Her other titles are. Duchess of Nassau, Countess Palatine of the Rhine, Countess of Sayn, Konigstein. Katzenelnbogen and Dietz, Lady of Mahlberg, Wiesbade. Idstein, Marenberg, Limbourg, and Eppstein.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 12
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213PEOPLE IN THE LIMELIGHT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 12
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