Word: covadonga
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When the former Prince, now the Count of Covadonga, and his wife, a buxom Cuban girl whom he had wooed when both were patients in a Swiss sanatorium, paused in Manhattan last autumn on their way to Cuba, that frail and amiable young man was secretly suffering with an acute pain in his right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house...
...elated was the Count of Covadonga, eldest son of Spain's ex-King Alfonso XIII, at receiving a case of whiskey from his comely Cuban wife that he spent his monthly allowance of $200 on a steamship ticket to Manhattan. Besides rejoining his wife, the haemophilic Count, who lost his pretensions to the throne and his title (Prince of Asturias) by marrying a commoner, planned to hunt work as a cinemactor. Said he: "My wife and I would be together now if it were not for Father. Father wanted the marriage annulled but I said: 'Nuts...
...police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced his rights to Spain's empty throne last year by marrying a Cuban girl, lay ill with influenza in Paris last week. To his bedside and to meet his wife-nurse for the first time went his mother, Victoria, and his two sisters...
...Lausanne last week the robbery was made good. No longer even a Prince but, after renunciation of his rights, merely "Count de Covadonga," the Bourbon Bridegroom put on a brave front. "Most princesses in Europe," said he, "are empty-headed little dancing flirts. I am getting a real princess, one who is sweet and serious and will make a real home...