Word: alfonso
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...Alfonso of Spain brought Victoria Eugenie, his British bride of 28 years ago, a full measure of woe. An anarchist's bomb nearly killed her on her wedding day. She was obliged to attend bullfights which she hated. She could not help thinking most Spaniards outlandish and sinister. Revolution chased her pell-mell out of Spain three years...
Last week, fortnight after his 48th birthday, the rumor spread insistently across Europe that at last Alfonso, still His Most Catholic Majesty to monarchists, was ready to ask Pope Pius XI for an annulment of his marriage to Victoria Eugenie. A twin rumor was that Alfonso proposed to renounce his rights to the Spanish throne in favor of his third son Prince Juan, now a cadet in the British Navy. Last week newshawks found a few of the Bourbon's "friends" who gravely agreed that "there is a foundation for the rumors." Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope...
...gratitude to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to the American people." The resolution was adopted on the 36th anniversary of the day when Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and made Swiss cheese of the impotent royal navy of His Imperial, 12-year-old Majesty, Alfonso XIII, last King of Spain. It marked the formal acceptance on behalf of the Philippines of the new offer of freedom made by Congress (TIME, April...
...story, swore that his daughter would not dream of marrying the prince. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf announced that the prince would not dream of marrying the captain's daughter. But in Cannes King Gustaf was worried. He was reported to have said to Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII at a dinner party, "I intend to do all I can to stop...
...forbade the newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook...