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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Down goes the Kaiser's banner
May 14, 1915
The AP reports that the banners of Order of Garter for Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria were removed today from St. George's Chapel. The chapel was closed for the removals. The banners for the King of Württemberg, the Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Henry of Hesse, and the Duke of Cumberland were also removed.
Yesterday, these German sovereigns and princes were stricken from the list of members of the Order of Garter.
The removals, according to the AP, were "without ceremony."
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