Word: covadonga
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Only recently the Count of Covadonga, former heir apparent to the Spanish throne and a renowned hemophilic, bled to death after an automobile accident. It is entirely probable that the new powder would have helped to stop this bleeding and thus possibly saved his life...
Died. Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 31, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...
Seeking Divorce. The Countess of Covadonga, onetime Cuban belle Marta Rocafort; from the Count of Covadonga, onetime heir to the throne of Spain, whom she married in July (TIME, July 12); in Havana, Cuba. Cause: "incompatibility of characters...
Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana...