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Boris is, of course, descended from the excessively blue-blooded Bourbon and Coburg stock. One of his great-grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...
...whose presence will an island variously called Reunion and Bourbon henceforth be distinguished...
...wife; to Elizabeth, Countess von Waldburg. As everyone knows, the children of a morganatic marriage are legitimate and the marriage, though it confers no rank upon the lesser party, is valid to the extent of precluding any other legal union while it exists. Individuals such as "Prince Louis de Bourbon," self-styled "brother of the King of Spain," often inform gullible pressmen that they are the result of a morganatic union, though another term would be more appropriate...
...openhearted young New Englander, steeped in Vergil, enters their midst, to find that their innocent schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting that he is among current incarnations of the Olympians, the young American constitutes himself their Mercury?messenger, confidant, historian?setting down their biographies and a few episodes...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...