Word: emperor
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...returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams to London was secured and Austrian papers scare-headed that he had "ordered sent out from England the magnificent white horse on which he used to ride as King and Emperor." Actually the Duke had telegraphed an order for some whiskey, "White Horse" brand...
Because the scheduled Coronation Durbar next winter of British King & Emperor George VI has had to be canceled by His Majesty (TIME, Feb. 15), there is no immediate prospect for the world to see such another Indian spectacle of pomp and power as that of the Jubilee Durbar which began in Hyderabad with warlike display of 10,000 Hyderabad troops last week and will close Feb. 26 when the Nizam prays in the public gardens of the Great Mosque, entertains the eminent Indian theologians of his Dominions, and throws open the characteristic and important Hyderabad Departmental Progress Exposition...
...from the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, its Royal Family have been accorded by British Royalty special honors and the Nizam now has the official status of "Faithful Ally." This gracefully implies that his exalted highness is not so much the inferior as the colleague of His Majesty the Emperor of India - and, during the World War, the dry, grave "Richest Man in the World" contributed to Britain some $100,000,000 cash plus untold supplies and Hyderabad army units...
...strictly perfect Constitutional monarch, dwelling almost entirely in moated Tokyo Palace grounds, and never known to have kicked over the traces is Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Last week His Majesty, the impassive, bespectacled, studious Son-Of-Heaven who had just weathered a grave Cabinet crisis (TIME, Feb. 8), donned medieval court costume and pre- sided in the Palace of his ancestors over nationwide celebrations to mark the 2,597th anniversary of his Imperial Dynasty...
...Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque of Kings the dead prince and his mistress have for the first time...