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Rumored the richest Spaniard, certainly one of the saddest, is old Count de Romanones. He arranged the flight of Alfonso XIII (TIME, April 27). He put Queen Victoria Eugenie, the ailing Crown Prince and the rest of the Spanish Royal Family on a train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...
When a haemophile receives the slightest scratch he begins to bleed profusely and the wound heals so slowly that the haemophile may easily bleed to death. Well ex-King Alfonso knows that ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain transmitted haemophilia to their sickly son. Spain's ex-heir, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. That the poor boy has lived all these years is a miracle of science and a tragedy. Had the Crown Prince been stronger, unpopular King Alfonso might have abdicated in his son's favor which might perhaps have saved the dynasty...
...Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina was a major factor in the House of Romanov's fall. There were those last week who sympathized with ex-King Alfonso in his terrible decision...
Tempted by these suggestions, tugged by a father's love, ex-King Alfonso rose eventually superior to temptation, was said to have voiced his "horror." Pious, he registered a vow to prevent the marriage of either of his daughters by every means within his power...