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Prince Charles Cinema

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Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Prince Charles Cinema
Phone:
+44 20 7494 3654

Address:
7 Leicester Pl, London WC2H 7BY, UK

Charles Edward was the last reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 30 July 1900 until 1918. A male-line grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was also until 1919 a Prince of the United Kingdom and held the British titles of Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow from birth.Charles Edward was a controversial figure in the United Kingdom due to his status as the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which was part of the German Empire, during World War I. On 14 November 1918, however, after a revolution in Germany, he was forced to abdicate as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and lost his rights to the ducal throne.In 1919, Charles Edward was deprived of his British peerages, his title of Prince and Royal Highness and his British honours for having fought in the German Army during WWI; he was labelled a traitor peer.Charles Edward later joined the Nazi Party as well as the Sturmabteilung , where he reached the position of Obergruppenführer. Charles Edward served in a number of positions in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, including President of the German Red Cross from 1933–45. He was the maternal grandfather of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the younger brother of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.After paying the fines imposed by the denazification court and losing properties to the Soviet army, he died in poverty in 1954.
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