Word: alfonso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later Lady Chamberlain went to Rome to discuss plans with the Premier, to get his official consent to remove the pictures. In Germanv she enlisted the aid of then Chancellor Stresemann, in Spain she talked with King Alfonso. Sir Joseph Duveen arranged for U. S. loans...
...King Alfonso XIII seldom visits Barcelona, though it is one of Spain's important cities and he has there a sumptuous palace with a plenitude of peacocks. He avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons. They are revolutionaries to a man and their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with...
Even Dictator Primo de Rivera took the story seriously. The King was on a hunting party in Novalera, and Alba was with him. Dictator Primo de Rivera has not forgotten that Alfonso XIII was ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It might barely be that the King now fancied he could oust Primo for Alba. After much telegraphing to the Royal Hunting Lodge, the blunt, obese Dictator issued a personal and arrestingly gracious statement...
...have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...