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...rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince Baudouin, 14, whom Leopold's younger brother, Prince Regent Charles, was training for the pleasures of kingship...
Ross IV was a strapping, handsome man with high cheekbones inherited from his Malayan mother (a royal Sulu princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...died in a world in which "order [was] behind everything." Man, animals, the heavens were set in fixed categories, hardly ever questioned. In this "order" man was seen as below the angels but above the beasts. Kings were divinely appointed; they might be assassinated, but no one suggested that kingship itself should be abolished. Man was made to worship God, but all else was made to serve man, and would do so as long as man did not give way to his passions and, by becoming a beast, disrupt the universal scheme...
...Shakespeare, says Author Spencer, who best reflected in his plays the terrible split in men's minds between the old order and the new skepticism. In Richard II, Shakespeare showed the tragedy of a monarch who believed that the trappings of kingship were what made a king. In Henry V, he showed a king who knew "the hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before...
...recently Carol has begun to miss the privileges and perquisites of kingship. Last week he announced that in response to "exhortations and appeals" he would presently emerge as Regent of Free Rumania, hoping for a day when Adolf Hitler would be disposed of and Rumania could become "a monarchy based on democratic principles...