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unusual facts about Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld



1001 Club

It was established in 1970 by the then head of the WWF, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with help from Anton Rupert, a South African entrepreneur.

Baron Aschwin of Sierstorpff-Cramm

Armgard (18 December 1883 – 27 April 1971), married in 1905 to Count Bodo of Oeynhausen, divorced in 1908, no issue; Married secondly in 1909 to Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, had issue.

Biesterfeld

Biesterfeld is currently part (Ort) of the Rischenau quarter (Ortsteil) of the city of Lügde, Germany.

Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg

Preparations for the wedding of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands's only child Crown Princess Juliana to the German Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld were underway in the 1937 when a small diplomatic scandal occurred.

Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Ernest was married to Countess Karoline Friederike Cecilia of Wartensleben (1844–1905) on the 16 September 1869 in Neudorf.

Lockheed bribery scandals

Prince Bernhard received a $1.1 million bribe from Lockheed to ensure the Lockheed F-104 would win out over the Mirage 5 for the purchase contract.

Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Anna married secondly to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, second eldest child of Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld and his wife Countess Karoline of Wartensleben, on 26 April 1922 in Büdingen.

Princess Christina

Princess Christina of the Netherlands (born 1947), daughter of Queen regnant Juliana of the Netherlands and Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Along with Paul Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of the European Jews, Marie Adelheid also translated Lenora Mattingly Weber's work My True Love Waits from French into German and Harry Elmer Barnes' Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from English into German, among others.

At one meeting she presided over in March 1935, she stated that children should be forbidden from reading the Old Testament and asserted that there was not much sense in reading the New Testament.


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