Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernadotte served for a time as the Governor of captured Hanover in Germany and buttered up influential Swedish officers taken prisoner during Napoleon's campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...
Bernadotte went through the motions of asking Napoleon, who exclaimed "Preposterous! Absurd!", but a few months later the Emperor made the best of it, approved the deal. So the Swedish people elected Bernadotte their Crown Prince, and Swedish King Karl XIII adopted the Frenchman as his son under the name Prince Karl Johan. In the eight years which ensued before Sweden's old King died, the Crown Prince consolidated his position, became one of Sweden's popular figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under...
Professor Rand has been previously honored by foreign governments. He is a Correspondent Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Rome; Rand is also a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy...
...near and the distant, the great and the small; And I plainly perceive you will not be at rest, Till you've conquered all lands, both East and West. So Egypt is yours; your ambition then ranges, And bears you away to the Tigris and Ganges. But when crown'd with success, and with glory you tire us, What's left to be done when return'd to Epirus...
Around the figure of the Prince of Piedmont, the Crown Prince, has been gathered much of the silent but unmistakable support of those who differed with the regime's policy. Thirty-five years old, more outspoken than his father, he is extremely popular with the Army. During the last year he has worked hard, appearing at Army reviews in Libya only a few days after he had attended maneuvers in Northern Italy. He has found little time to spend in his big palace in the heart of Naples. The applause he receives at public gatherings is even more vociferous...