Mad King Ludwig

Article: Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria was 'murdered'.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  December 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria was 'murdered' London, Dec 7 (PTI) For over a century, Mad King Ludwig's mysterious death has been ruled a suicide. But, now there's ...

Article: The mad king of the castle The tragic and fantastic ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Neuschwanstein. And this musical is about the mad king who built it, and paid for his extravagance ... the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but King Ludwig II created a fantasy world that easily ... is surprising it has taken so long for King Ludwig to inspire a musical. Yet an even ...

Article: A little piece of a fairy tale; A piece of paper Found near a ...
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  January 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... was one of several that King Ludwig II built during his reign ... with the grandeur of King Ludwig II's Versailles knock ... a lasting tribute to King Ludwig II, who had an insatiable ... Bavaria. Known as the "Mad King," the extravagant Ludwig ...

Article: Mad King Ludwig gets Portillo vote
The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 9, 2001 ;     414 words ... ... loving Portillo, 48, wants to make a documentary on Richard Wagner and his relationship with his patron, the somewhat camp King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself in June 1886 shortly after being declared insane. During the two years he spent away from ...

Article: Modern-day German prince clashes with devotees to King ...
AP Online;  May 28, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... their share. First, there was King Ludwig II, who built his ``fairy ... Taxis. This descendent of ``Mad'' King Ludwig has a villa in Schwangau, and ... have published complaints. The King Ludwig Club in Munich wrote to the prince ...

Article: Furniture for the Dream King: Ludwig II and the ...
The Magazine Antiques;  February 1, 2004 ;     436 words ...Furniture for the Dream King: Ludwig II and the Munich Court Cabinet-Maker Anton Possenbacher By ... cabinetmaker who created incredibly fanciful furniture for the mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria. These wonderful interpretations of the style ...

Article: Mad Ludwig lives on. (Bavaria's castles built by King ...
Europe;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... touch with reality and lost in his dreams - that's how king Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) is often remembered ... spree gave Germany some of its most majestic castles. "Mad King Ludwig's" Schlosser (castles), some of Europe's most ...