Word: borb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reina in Spain Sir: Your interesting article on Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg [TIME, June 22] describes Alfonso XIII's English widow, Queen Victoria Eugenia, as the "last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria." There are at least two other granddaughters of Britain's Queen Victoria still very much alive-namely: Lady Patricia Ramsay (daughter of Victoria's third son Arthur, Duke of Connaught) and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (daughter of Victoria's fourth son Leopold, Duke of Albany...
Married. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 24, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie of the Hellenes, 23, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika; in consecutive Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox ceremonies; in Athens (see THE WORLD...
...been one of Europe's most eligible bachelors. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed and athletic, he has one added, increasingly rare attraction: a slightly better than outside chance that he will some day sit on a throne. His father is the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón, who, Franco has more or less promised, may in due course be allowed to become King of Spain, and young Prince Juan Carlos might presumably some day succeed him. In the meantime, Franco has looked after Juan Carlos' education at Spain's army, navy...
Rumors began to fly that Sophie was no longer melancholy. Last week in Athens, a 101-gun salute boomed out from Mount Lycabettus, and the Greek court made it official: Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Prince of Asturias and Infante of Spain, would marry Princess Sophie...
...once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...