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Betzdorf Castle is located in eastern Luxembourg, in the commune of Betzdorf. Built between 1911-19 by an engineer named René Müller Laval, the costs of the property forced Müller Laval to rent it out but the Great Depression struck and the home sat empty. After his death, his brother opened the house up to the Red Cross as a vacation home and retreat centre. The Nazis took over the castle during World War II, turning it into a housekeeping school. This allowed the property to make it through the war unscathed.
After the war, the Luxembourg government took control of the house. It became a reformatory for prostitutes. The property was slated to become a women’s prison when the then-Hereditary Grand Duke Jean became engaged to Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. They needed a home and Betzdorf Castle was one of the few royal properties that was not undergoing renovations because of the war.
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Elizabeth and Philip: was theirs the last truly royal marriage?
The Queen married a man with more royal blood than her own – a circumstance unlikely to be repeated in royal history
11 April 2021 • 6:00am
The Queen and Prince Philip were both born of royal blood – but none of their children or grandchildren married royals
Credit: Donald McKague
The announcement from Buckingham Palace, on the evening of 9 July 1947, made clear that the dashing, blond-haired navalman, newly engaged to the heiress presumptive, Princess Elizabeth, was no ordinary lieutenant of the Royal Navy. Philip Mountbatten, the Court Circular informed an enthusiastic British public, was the ‘son of the late Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Andrew (Princess Alice of Battenberg)’. At a stroke, the future Elizabeth II had achieved the impossible. Her husband-to-be, naturalised as a British subject in February, was not only an officer with a distinguished record of wartime service in Britain’s navy
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