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...Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...Portugal, Displaced Personage Carol Hohenzollern, 55, exiled ex-King of Rumania, ceremoniously repeated the nuptial vows he took at her "deathbed" two years ago with trim, redhaired, green-eyed Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 52. In a full-dress Greek Orthodox service he made his uncrowned queen of 25 years the crownless Princess Elena...
...Last week King John Clunies-Ross V, 19, was still in England with his mother, Queen Rose, his brother, "Prince" Charles and his sisters, the "Princesses" Elizabeth and Inin. As soon as he can, he will return to his realm to receive the genuflections of his subjects in a crownless coronation ceremony. The kings of Cocos usually wear old straw hats...
...worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before they can wear their halos...
...while Princess Giovanna is but 17 and Princess Maria is just turned ten. From the Eternal City, the Bulgarian Monarch will travel to Paris, where is a fair sprinkling of comely princesses from the exiled houses of dethroned sovereigns. But, allegedly, he is not interested in the daughters of crownless heads. So will he depart to England, which for him will be a barren land...