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...conference, but for the first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...after giving birth to four very handsome daughters, Russia's German-born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher...
Only 28 years old, Henry Pu Yi is no stranger to thrones. Twice before has he been proclaimed Emperor of China. The first time was when he was two years old. In 1908 that crafty old mummy the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who had ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them...
While the old lady watched, Little Pu Yi was robed in imperial yellow and placed on the dragon throne as the Emperor Hsuan Tung. Next day the Dowager Empress died suddenly. Prince Chun became Regent and the Emperor Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that...
...good sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress Elizabeth (Flora Robson). The Grand Duke is moody, ill-tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine and of all others...