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...feelings of his Greece-born, Greece-loving Duchess, the Duke personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier Tsaldaris took the hint and a long step forward toward a return to a Monarchy...
Panayoti Tsaldaris, though determined to restore the Throne and strong with the prestige of having just put down a Republican Revolution, is somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where...
Meanwhile the Athens newsorgan Anexartitos reported former King "Gorgeous" Georgios II so enraged at Premier Tsaldaris that he was conferring secretly with the leader of Greece's lately suppressed revolution, foxy old Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just lost a chunk of his fat wife's fat fortune in the crash of Paris' Travelers Bank. The onetime...
...necessarily would the King for whom so many hurrahs were shouted last week be Greece's deposed George II ("Gorgeous Georgios") who lives in London the life of a sportsman-about-town and insists "I have never abdicated. Mark my words, I shall again be King of the Greeks." Many Greeks would prefer to see British George V's youngest son, the Duke of Kent, invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what...
Friends of Gorgeous Georgios retorted that so far as faithfulness is concerned Elizabeth is well known to be keeping a "Secretary," handsome Alexander Szanavy. Since her union with Georgios II was childless, they added, it will be just as well for His Majesty to return unencumbered to the Throne and pick a more fruitful Queen. Few days later Elizabeth and her M. Szanavy, with Carol and his Mme Lupescu, celebrated in high spirits the granting of the divorce by Rumania's Appeal Court...