Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Recently profaned in the usual way, the Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...
...Rome last week, strutting Crown Prince Umberto, flushed and bold in the new popularity which followed his escape from assassination (TIME, Nov. 4), was reported to have differed with Signor Benito Mussolini over...
...kiss and other ceremonials has gone on between Vatican and Quirinal for a month. The view of Signor Mussolini (no toe-kisser) remains that King should merely shake hands with Pope, denoting that they meet as temporal sovereigns of two earthly realms (Italy and the new Papal State). But Crown Prince Umberto (looked to by non-Fascist Catholics as the only figurehead they could possibly set up against Il Duce) lets it be known unmistakably that he thinks his father's lips should touch...
...vicissitudes of a varied season make it impossible for either team to carry away from the stadium this afternoon the crown of a championship. But the undoubted strength of the two teams, the expected colorful performance of several of their individual members, and the intense yet gracious emotion of their supporters promises an afternoon fully in accord with the fine old sporting tradition...