Word: alfonso
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...chore was royal, and it was the third which President Doumergue has had to do in as many weeks. First Spain's King Alfonso XIII came to say goodbye, then Albert King of the Belgians, and now Sweden's lank Gustaf V was at the door. All these kings no doubt meant well, but in their gracious goodbyes lurked an unintended sting, as though they said...
King by the Grace of God, His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII suddenly found himself this week no longer King by the Will of the People. In the first election Spain has had for eight years the People hurled an avalanche of Republican ballots against the Crown...
...candidates failed to carry even the constituency in which his palace stood, lost the Capital as a whole, lost Seville, Barcelona, Cordova, lost all the provincial capitals except three, lost what was supposed to be the invincible Catholic stronghold of the Crown, Toledo. "I feel," said deeply religious Alfonso XIII, "as though I had gone to visit a friend and, in reaching his house, learned that he was dead...
...King Alfonso took the night to think things over. A Bourbon to the last, though a 20th Century Bourbon, he spent the evening at a movie show in his palace. With him were his children and Queen Victoria Eugenie, cousin of George V, granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...this the blood of the Bourbon boiled. "I agree to abdicate," haughtily retorted King Alfonso, "upon condition that I be permitted to leave Spain with appropriate honors, with full military honors...