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...time to time, was a short, leathery man in the olive uniform of the Spanish army. He was Lieut. General Carlos Martinez de Campos y Serrano. Duque de la Torre, the guardian chosen by Franco and Don Juan to guide the prince over the long and narrow path to kingship...
...sheer benevolence that caused Rollo and his line to admit their power and decide many a cause against their own immediate interest. Practical considerations of staying in the king business made it desirable to give the constituents the feeling that the king obeyed a higher law of justice. Kingship, indeed, is meaningless without reference to a higher law. And this is the irony of power: that it will either create checks upon itself or it will wither...
...Barbarian; As heir presumptive to this royal ring-a-rosy, Prince Paul as a young man showed an understandable lack of interest in kingship. Chafing under the dominance of his stingy elder brother George II, the easygoing Crown Prince spent most of his time away from Greece, aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time...
Advice from Grandmama. George lived half his life in the shadow of his imperial grandmother; he was 35 when she died in 1901. He did not start his training for kingship until his elder brother's death in 1892 made him heir apparent. But Queen Victoria kept a careful eye on him, supervised the planning of his education, his choice of a career (the Royal Navy), wrote him Polonius-like advice: "Beware of flatterers, too great love of amusement, of races & betting & playing high...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...