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- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: Died:Prince Franz Josef II
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 58
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- <p> DIED. Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein, 83, monarch
- of the 62-sq.-mi. principality for 51 years; in Grabs,
- Switzerland. The twelfth ruler of Liechtenstein and a nephew of
- Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914
- triggered World War I, he was the first Prince to take up
- permanent residence in the principality. He directed a
- modernization that transformed Liechtenstein from an
- underdeveloped rural community into one of Europe's richest
- enclaves. He is succeeded by his oldest son, Prince Hans Adam,
- 44.
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