Word: hapsburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk's eldest son), while Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire who now calls himself Dr. Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country that, but for history, he might have ruled...
...might be the victim of hemophilia, the congenital blood disease that was transmitted to the Borbóns by Queen Victoria's granddaughter. But the Prince was a healthy, if lonely child. Now 6 ft. 2 in. and athletic, Juan Carlos was even spared the heavy "Hapsburg" lower lip that is characteristic of his family...
...sense, he is Nixon's creation, using the power base of the presidency to roam the world and speak for Nixon, to set the stage for summits, to negotiate war and peace. There have been similar relationships before, but none exactly the same: Richelieu and Louis XIII, Metternich and Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, Harry Hopkins and F.D.R...