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...little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
...years, redhaired, two-fisted Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, had been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
...handsome, 34-year-old Duchess, arrested again last February on charges of conspiring against the security of the state, was acquitted at a trial two weeks ago (TIME, June 26). Last week, she formally announced that she was giving up her political crusade. On doctors' orders she would undergo a long rest and treatment "to recover from ailments caused by imprisonment." From his Lisbon exile, the Spanish pretender, Don Juan, had himself urged his faithful follower to withdraw from the fight for the sake of her health. The Duchess had made her decision even before her last trial...
...took the court a few hours to acquit the duchess, sentence Don Bernardo to 18 months in jail (two other defendants got shorter prison terms). After the trial, the duchess, chic and cool in a tailored grey suit and gunmetal-colored nylons, appeared on a balcony to greet the crowds waiting in the street 'below. Then she went home. She immediately sent a message to Don Juan, exiled pretender to the Spanish throne. Said she: "I have cabled my King that I am free...
Later, friends admitted to her boudoir found the duchess in bed (her doctor had ordered a complete rest), thoughtfully fingering a bouquet sent her by her gallant judge...