Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Albania selects a king

August 25, 1913

The Chicago Daily Tribune has published a report coming out of Bucharest regarding the European powers' decision to name Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Otto Karl of Wied, 41, as the candidate for the Albanian throne. The prince, who is a nephew of Queen Elisabeth of Romania, is the head of the House of Wied. He is married to Princess Pauline of Württemberg. The couple have two sons.

Note: the report is wrong on several counts. Wilhelm was married to Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, and not Princess Pauline of Württemberg. They had two children, Karl and Marie Eleonore

1 comment:

Allan Raymond said...

The Chicago Daily Tribune report is wrong on one account for a very important reason. The paper reports Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Otto Karl(1872-1945) as the candidate for the throne of Albania. In fact it was his brother Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich) (1876–1945) who was the candidate and eventually became of Prince of Albania albeit for a very short time. The rest of the report is correct Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Otto Karl of Wied is the nephew of Queen Elisabeth of Romania and did marry Princess Pauline of Württemberg and also had two sons.