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...Answers: 1) Philip II was wed to Maria of Portugal, Mary I of England, Elizabeth of Valois and Anna, daughter of Emperor Maximilian II; 2) Philip V could not abide Escorial's royal vault, was buried at his request at La Granja; 3) Isabel was so rewarded because she had been a reigning queen...
HIROHITO: EMPEROR OF JAPAN by Leonard Mosley. 371 pages. Prentice-Hall...
According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood was a drill in the warrior-centered Shinto religion. When he was eleven, his grandfather, the Emperor, died, and General Nogi, one of Hirohito's beloved tutors, gave him a final traumatic lesson in Shinto. After sitting with him for more than three hours and reviewing the boy's studies, the old general went home to his wife. First, the couple purified themselves in Shinto rites. Then the general took a dagger, dispatched his wife, and eviscerated himself...
Gentle Family Man. The most remarkable thing about the unremarkable-looking little man who is Emperor Hirohito, the Magnanimous-Exalted, the Sublime Majesty, the Imperial Son of Heaven of Dai Nippon, is that none of his rigorous childhood lessons really stuck. When he was 14, he threw his history teacher into a flap by stating that he thought most of the details of his supposedly divine descent were pure moonshine. They had to be, he pointed out politely, because they were biologically unsound and physically impossible...
...proved to be a disappointment in other respects. Unlike his father, Emperor Taisho, a dandy who liked to emulate Kaiser Wilhelm by waxing and curling his mustache and galloping around on a horse, Hirohito neither looked nor acted warlike. From a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front...