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...will then pick a temporary regent to reign until a king can finally be chosen. The king, in turn, will inaugurate a royal succession in which the first male heir will inherit the throne. If normal custom is followed, the first king will be Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 53, son of Spain's last king, who is now living at Estoril in Portugal and is spending his life preparing to become a constitutional monarch...
...extolling the virtues of the liberal monarchies of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands that landed A.B.C. in the soup. Instead of following the official attitude that a post-Franco "institutions" of the monarch must Franco regime, maintain the the paper praised Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, chief pretender to the throne, for promoting "a European monarchy, a democratic monarchy, a popular monarchy, a monarchy for all." Such thoughts are apparently still heresy in Franco's liberalized Spain...
...premier Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 52, third son* of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, decided to try to clarify the picture. Last week he named the first five members of an eight-man "secretariat" that will function as a sort of cabinet, supplement the 60-man privy council that already advises him, and seek to unify the monarchists. The head of the new secretariat is José Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning...
...Spanish monarchists, Franco's only legitimate successor would be Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the strapping 52-year-old son of the late King Alfonso XIII. Don Juan's official title is Count of Barcelona, but monarchists already call him King Juan III,* and in his sprawling white villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril...
...changed in 1917 by George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (whereupon Kaiser Wilhelm II, George's first cousin, gleefully called for a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Philip is a Mountbatten, a name also Anglicized in 1917 from Battenberg...