Word: carlists
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...Spaniards followed wooden crosses and old battle flags up steep paths toward a plateau on the mountaintop. There, at the heart of the old northern kingdom of Navarre, they gathered for their annual commemoration of two bloody 19th century civil wars in which their ancestors fought to put a Carlist king on the throne of Spain...
...King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever...
...board of companies that have no Dutch competitors). Not only is he his nation's most effective representative abroad, but he also provides the authority and humor the Queen lacks. In the case of Irene, he backed the view of the Queen and the government that, given the Carlist political complications, the wedding must take place without official family sanction...
...been time to see Princess Irene become the bride of Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbon y Parma, and fortunately, the Dutch royal family was spared the spectacle outside Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore that looked more like a political rally than wedding festivities. The crowd rang with Carlist-battle cries of "Vivan los reyes!", and students from Spain's Loyola College, in the heart of Carlist country, serenaded the pair with guitars, tambourines and castanets. Irene's father-inlaw, Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, as gaunt and straight-backed as an El Greco grandee, arranged...
...under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over that lady's honor. For no better reason than that he liked the cut of an English jib, Conrad...