Word: alfonso
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...When Alfonso XIII was King of Spain his summer capital was Santander, an old fishing port that had become Spain's most fashionable resort, with broad, shaded streets and quiet parks and a fresh, clean smell that blew in from the Bay of Biscay. Spain's best bulls and matadores appeared in Santander when the King was there; on hot summer afternoons Alfonso, no aficionado, used to go to the bullfights because it was expected of him, watching with that indifference to pain which is a part of the heritage of all Spaniards. Last week Alfonso was dying...
...Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the God in whom he devoutly believed had reserved the most painful death a man can die. Death came to him slowly last week with the agony that crept from his chest around his diaphragm, up into his neck and down to the tips of his slender, beautiful fingers. His physician, Professor Cesare Frugoni, had moved him from his bed to a chair to give him an injection, then had been afraid he could not survive the effort of being carried back to bed. He was propped up in the chair when Italy...
...Juan is the third son of a family famed for its Bourbon nose and its unhappiness. Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, niece of Britain's Edward VII, carried hemophilia to two of her four sons, bore two daughters who by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves. Hemophile Don Alfonso, the eldest son, renounced his right to the crown when he married a wealthy but untitled Cuban, bled to death after an auto accident in Florida three years ago. Earlier, the youngest son, Don Gonzalo, also a bleeder, died after a minor car smash...
Second Son Don Jaime never took the title of Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain). No hemophile, Don Jaime was born deaf, was for years mute as well, though he now croaks intelligible Spanish, English, French. When Don Alfonso married, Don Jaime stepped aside, leaving healthy Don Juan as heir apparent...
Ever since Alfonso left Spain by request in 1931, Britain has hoped for Spanish Restoration, would welcome British-trained Don Juan as king. Monarchist-minded Boss Franco is also Axis-minded, and for this reason he had nothing to say about Alfonso's gesture last week. Meanwhile in Mexico fugitive Spanish Republicans announced that they had banded with a cabal of anti-Franco Monarchists for Franco's overthrow. If the Spanish die were cast, it had not stopped rolling...