Word: great-great-grandson
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...uncertainties and imponderables that lie ahead for Spain, none is more baffling than the personage of Prince Juan Carlos Alphonso Victór Maria de Borbón y Borbón, grandson of King Alphonso XIII of Spain and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of England. He was chosen by Franco in 1969 to ascend the throne after his death, in the hope that the royal scion would assure an orderly succession and maintain the stern, one-party system that the dictator had created. Whether the enigmatic Prince, 36, can meet these hopes is as problematical...
Born. To Crown Prince Harald of Norway, 36, son of King Olav V, 70, and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Crown Princess Sonja, 36, a dress merchant's daughter who married Harald in 1968 in spite of King Olav's opposition: their second child, a hoped-for prince; in Oslo...
...hair is long, his politics hip, and he is a purposeful dropout from the University of Michigan. But Guerin Scripps Wilkinson, 19, also happens to be a great-great-grandson of Detroit News Founder James E. Scripps and owned $60,000 worth of News stock. In an obvious move to embarrass the paper, Guerin announced plans to turn over his shares to an amalgam of underground outfits for sale to blacks, poor whites, Indians and Chicanos so that underprivileged citizens could be represented at News stockholder meetings. Envisioning vociferous claques disrupting the normally decorous deliberations, the News quietly...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
...athletically built at 200 lbs., he is married to a beautiful princess who has borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe's noble blood. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Spain's last ruling king, the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and a direct descendant of Louis XVI, France's last Bourbon monarch...