An important news item came across the wire in mid-may, 1949:
“The delegates from Western Germany’s 11 states gave final approval to the draft of the constitution for the new Federal Republic of Germany.”
– but what matter was this to the thousands of Bavarians who were highly distrustful of the new government; they had their own gloried past that was largely due to the royal family known as the House of Wittelsbach:
“A strong faction is campaigning for the return to the throne of former Crown Prince Rupprecht. The eldest son of King Ludwig III, deposed in 1918, Rupprecht is a tall, thin man of vast education. He led Bavarian troops under Kaiser Wilhelm. In World War II, he was exiled to Italy. Since then he has been living with his family at Leutstetten Castle on Lake Starnberg near Munich.”
“If the Bavarian people desire monarchy, I shall respect their desire.”
Nice work if you can get it…
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