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125:15 June 1945
76:Succeeded by
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1781:1945 deaths
1776:1861 births
1683:"No. 27364"
495:, 2nd Class
461:, 1st Class
291:World War I
283:July Crisis
275:Anglophilia
168:World War I
64:Preceded by
1770:Categories
1669:, London,
1630:5 February
1602:14 January
1489:References
314:Herrenhaus
252:Edward VII
174:Early life
100:1861-09-05
1379:Des Fours
295:Jan Smuts
238:'s aunt,
210:in 1790.
142:Parent(s)
54:In office
1580:op. cit.
1567:op. cit.
527:Ancestry
270:George V
204:Lorraine
338:Honours
289:During
136:Austria
115:Ukraine
107:Lemberg
1671:p. 438
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228:London
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224:Paris
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