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 | | He was born at the family estate Haus Dötzingen near (Hitzacker, Germany), as Claus Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg. |
 | | The public also sympathized with Claus for his efforts to give meaning to his life beyond the restrictions that Dutch law imposed on the royal family's freedom of speech and action (lest they get involved in political controversy). |
 | | In 1998, after presenting the annual Claus Award to three African fashion designers, Claus told "workers of all nations to unite and cast away the new shackles they have voluntarily cast upon themselves", meaning the necktie, that "snake around my neck", and encouraged the audience to "venture into open-collar paradise". |
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