Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...
...other members of the Royal Family, including the 25-yr.-old Crown Prince and three nephews of His Majesty who were treated for trachoma, last week kept Dr. Fahmy busy. He also removed a cataract from the eye of 70-yr.-old Emir Abdel Ibn Selim, Governor of Oniva...
...black-gowned judge of the Brabant Court of Assizes sat in his Brussels courthouse last week to try one Fernando de Rosa charged with attempting to assassinate Crown Prince Umberto of Italy during H. R. H.'s visite de fiancallies to his present wife Princess Mane Jose of Belgium last year (TIME...
...repeated last week was that fat Fernando had not really tried to kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
...Last October Crown Prince Umberto gave the Fascist salute in public for the first time: on the balcony of the Royal Palace immediately after his return from Belgium. He neutralized this on his wedding day by standing rigidly at attention while the Royal March was played, turning his back, leaving the Palace balcony as the band blared Fascismo's Giovinezza...