Word: battenberg
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...Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Since Franco, "Caudillo of Spain by the grace of God," had pledged to restore a constitutional monarchy, the choice centered on the two surviving male members of Spain's long-deposed royal family. Would it be the Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 56, son of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, who dwells in self-imposed exile in Portugal? Or would it be his son, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 31, a sports-loving young man who has been educated in Spain and lives there...
...Bourbons-it was a heady occasion indeed. The baby's great-grandmother, 80-year-old Dowager Queen Victoria Eugenia, ended 37 years of exile (most of it self-imposed) to fly in from Nice for the baptism. His grandfather, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 54, the pretender to the throne, interrupted a Caribbean cruise to be on hand. Also present was Sophie's mother, Queen Frederika of Greece. But the one that Spain was watching the closest of all was its own Caudillo Franco...
...Madrid newspapers are owned and edited by Opus Deites, and so are a dozen Spanish magazine and book-publishing houses and the nation's leading independent news service. Three Opus Dei members sit on the privy council of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the pretender to the Spanish throne, and an Opus Dei priest serves as confessor to Prince Juan Carlos, who is next in line. Moreover, the country's only private university, the Pamplona-based Universidad de Navarra, is an out-and-out Opus Dei institution, and Opus Dei professors are being hired with...
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
...however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco, who until now has been virtually the sole and single source of full power...