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Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria - Former King Simeon II, crowned as a child and forced into exile during the communist years, vowed to improve dismal living standards in 800 days when he returned to Bulgaria as prime minister in 2001. But what began as a 21st-century fairy tale had an unhappy...

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great's father, Philip, was the brother of King Perdiccas III of Macedon or Macedonia, in northern Greece. In 359 B.C., King Perdiccas died. His young son Amyntas was expected to succeed him, with Philip as his regent, but Philip usurped his nephew's throne...

Wife No 11 24/08/2003 17:17 - (SA) Mbabane - Southern Africa's last absolute monarch, Swaziland's King Mswati III, has picked his 11th bride - and has already paid an "admission of guilt" fine for courting a virgin. The Times Sunday newspaper reported that Noliqwa Ntentesa, 17, was...

Wife No 11 24/08/2003 17:17 - (SA) Mbabane - Southern Africa's last absolute monarch, Swaziland's King Mswati III, has picked his 11th bride - and has already paid an "admission of guilt" fine for courting a virgin. The Times Sunday newspaper reported that Noliqwa Ntentesa, 17, was...

Empress Charlotte "Carlota" Charlotte of Belgium Archduchess of Austria - Empress of Mexico She was the daughter of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born in 1840. Charlotte, as she was known before becoming Empress of Mexico, was charming, attractive and beautiful with her black hair, dark-brown...

1972: Prince William killed in plane crash Prince William of Gloucester has been killed after his light aircraft crashed and burst into flames. The prince was taking part in an air race near Wolverhampton in the west Midlands. His plane, a yellow and white Piper Cherokee Arrow, banked...

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German grave to unlock 'mystery of the Bourbons' By Tony Patterson in Berlin (Filed: 28/07/2002) The 165-year-old remains of a mysterious woman known as the Dark Countess are to be exhumed from a moss-covered grave in east Germany this year by historians who are convinced that she was the...