Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 193.Wimbles 2003, p. 16. The body of the princess was transferred to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen crypt, the Hedinger Kirche of Sigmaringen.SIGMARINGEN HEDINGER / ERLÖSERKIRCHE in: royaltyguide.
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Wimbles, The Daughter of Tsar Alexander II, p. 48Mandache, Dearest Missy, p. 208 He was an attaché at the German Embassy in London and his family was mediatized but not a reigning royal family.
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Wimbles, The Daughter of Tsar Alexander II, p. 46 Although they wished to marry, no engagement was announced, and Alfred returned to England. Their parents were against the match. Alexander II did not want to lose his daughter, to whom he was deeply attached.
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In Greece, Elisabeth had great difficulty integrating into the royal family, and her relationship with Queen Sophia was particularly awkward.Wimbles 2002, p. 136, 138 and 141. From an introverted temperament that could be mistaken as arrogance,Gelardi 2006, p. 309.Wimbles 2002, p. 137.
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Wimbles 2002, p. 169 However, Elisabeth found it increasingly difficult to cope with Greece and its revolutionary climate. Her love for George II was over, and her letters to her mother show how much she worried for her future.Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 186–187.
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Unlike her husband, Elisabeth was delighted with her return to Romania. Her relationship with her mother was sometimes stormy, even if their literary collaborations were successful. In the mid 1920s, Elisabeth illustrated the latest work of her mother, The Country That I Love (1925).Wimbles 2003, p. 200.
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Queen Victoria refused this demand, yet granted her precedence immediately after the Princess of Wales. Her father gave her the then-staggering sum of £100,000 as a dowry, plus an annual allowance of £32,000.Wimbles, John. The Daughter of Tsar Alexander II. Published in The Grand Duchesses. Eurohistory.
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With Prince Paul (the king's brother and heir-presumptive to the throne), they then departed for Romania, where they learned of the proclamation of the Second Hellenic Republic on 25 March 1924.Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 187.Van der Kiste 1994, p. 144.Wimbles 2002, pp. 173–174.
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Indeed, even the shy Diadochos disappointed his wife, who wanted to share with him a more passionate relationship.Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 185.Wimbles 2002, p. 137–138. Regretting not having her own home and being forced to constantly live with her in-laws, Elisabeth spent the already little revenues of her husband into redecorating their apartments.
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Wimbles, The Daughter of Tsar Alexander II, p. 50 He died at the age of twenty-four on 6 February 1899 in Meran, after reportedly shooting himself at Gotha during his parents' wedding anniversary celebrations. The Duke was heartbroken at young Alfred's death. This tragedy drove the parents farther apart as Alfred blamed his wife, who had been responsible for young Alfred's education.
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Wimbles 2002, p. 139. Finally, she spent long hours studying the Modern Greek, a language that was extremely hard for her to learn. Disappointed by the mediocrity of her daily routine, Elisabeth began to nourish jealousy for her sister Maria, married to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and her sister- in-law Helen of Greece, wife of her brother Crown Prince Carol of Romania.Wimbles 2002, p.
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She kept him daily informed of the country's political life during his years of exile.Marcou 2002, p. 164, 172 and 197. Once on the throne, Carol II maintained stormy relations with the members of his family but retained his confidence in Elisabeth, who was the only member of the royal family who accepted his mistress.Marcou 2002, pp. 222–223. Thanks to the inheritance received from her father,Wimbles 2003, p. 202.
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12 In the following years, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna continued to make frequent trips to her native Russia in order to stay with her daughter, Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Russia. The last one of her trips took place in May 1914.Wimbles, The Daughter of Tsar Alexander II, p. 54 At the outbreak of World War I, Maria Alexandrovna was in Coburg after returning from a visit to King George V in Buckingham Palace.
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Wimbles 2003, p. 15.Porter 2005, pp. 169–170. Finally, through Alexandru Scanavi, the Princess participated in the financing of the guerrilla who fought against her former brother-in-law, the now King Paul I, in Greece. However, Elisabeth wasn't the only member of the Romanian royal family who had friendly relations with the communists: her sister Ileana did the same in the hope of putting her eldest son, Archduke Stefan of Austria, on the throne.
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The school had teams in football, rugby union, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, field hockey, basketball, swimming, tennis and golf. The Senior Boys football team captured the Shrine Bowl Provincial Championship in 1969, beating Maple Ridge Secondary 13-9 at Empire Stadium.Varsity Champions of the Past, Subway Bowl program Dec 1, 2007 The team was coached by former Canadian Olympian Bill Parnell.Vancouver Sun, In Memoriam, September 13, 2008 Murray Wimbles won outstanding lineman and Martin Smith won outstanding back for the game.
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Meanwhile, the disaster of the Greco-Turkish War forced King Constantine I to abdicate, which pushed George on to the throne (27 September 1922). The new king, however, had no power, and he and his queen were unable to resolve the repression organized by revolutionaries who took power against the representatives of the old regime. The new royal couple saw with anguish the near execution of Prince Andrew (the king's uncle) at the Trial of the Six.Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 186.Wimbles 2002, p. 168.
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