Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another time Peter II asked his Spanish great-aunt, the Infanta Beatrice, cousin by marriage of ousted Alfonso XIII, "What is a revolution...
Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...
Born- To the Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 26, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago...
...York on his yacht Infanta sailed John Barrymore with a 10-year-old brunette "protégée" named Elaine Barrie. Next day a legal advertisement in Los Angeles warned that Actor Barrymore would be responsible for no debts but his own. Day after, Mrs. Dolores Costello Barrymore sued him for divorce, charging cruelty and habitual drunkenness...
...Alfonso XIII left behind when he scuttled out of Spain in 1931 was a battered packing case in the palace basement, crammed with jewels worth $5,000,000, and marked "E. de B." for Eulalie de Bourbon, his sharp-tongued aunt. Spain's revolutionary rulers, who loved the Infanta Eulalie for her republican sympathies and the way she scolded the King, put the case away in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, promised to send it to its owner in Paris. Last week, having waited four years for the Government to keep its promise, the Infanta received word...