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Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg...
...Belgium's Prince Baudouin last week assumed the dull duties (though not yet the full pomps) of kingship. In Brussels, the Belgian Parliament voted to accept King Leopold Ill's offer to stand down from the throne; Baudouin would become "Prince Royal" and act as regent until his 21st birthday, then become king. Thus Parliament hoped to end the state of near-civil war which has rocked Belgium since Leopold's return from exile (TIME, July...
Later that day, lanky, bespectacled Baudouin (who despite his spindle-thin appearance has a golf handicap of 6) drove to Parliament. Created lieutenant general in the Belgian army by his father, he wore a bright new olive-drab uniform with the wide purple Grand cordon de I'ordre de Léopold across his chest. The thousands of cheering people and his heavy guard of honor plainly embarrassed him. Entering the Chamber of Representatives, he had difficulty managing his sword in its gold scabbard, and fumbled the salutes...
Baudouin was about to take the oath of allegiance to the constitution when a piercing cry rang through the hall: "Vive la République!" The cry had been voiced by Julien Lahaut, white-maned president of the Belgian Communist Party. His shocked fellow deputies (who wanted to get rid of Leopold, not of the monarchy) broke into hurried applause for Baudouin. The prince blushed furiously, his eyes downcast. Finally order was restored and Baudouin managed to say: "I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people...
...Sportsman's Park one night last week and gazed critically at an eight-year-old brown mare named Proximity. He shifted his unlit cigar, his 225-lb. bulk, got up slowly and fed the mare a lump of sugar. He was asked, "How does she look?" Belgian-born Ralph Verhurst, who has been trotting Proximity since she was a three-year-old, was characteristically pessimistic: "Bad, bad. I don't think she's got it." Owner Verhurst happily turned out to be wrong...