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Event of the week in Rome was the awful squash of 6,000 royal and titled guests at the marriage of Spanish Alfonso XIII's third son Juan, heir-pretender to the Throne, in St. Mary's Basilica to his brunette Italian cousin, Princess Marie-Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily who sobbed convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave...
...Cannes on the palmy Riviera last week duty called Edward of Wales to inspect the British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen...
...elated was the Count of Covadonga, eldest son of Spain's ex-King Alfonso XIII, at receiving a case of whiskey from his comely Cuban wife that he spent his monthly allowance of $200 on a steamship ticket to Manhattan. Besides rejoining his wife, the haemophilic Count, who lost his pretensions to the throne and his title (Prince of Asturias) by marrying a commoner, planned to hunt work as a cinemactor. Said he: "My wife and I would be together now if it were not for Father. Father wanted the marriage annulled but I said: 'Nuts...
...thick pile turkey red carpets, passes paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck. In the consultation room are some of the mementos which make Dr. Sheehan, a lonely man, happy-Christmas cards from his good friends King Carol of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during his sojourn in France at the Hotel du Nord, Charleville...
Engaged. Prince Juan, 21. third and only unmarried son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily...