Word: marquese
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First move was to make another of those sober, resigned, high minded statements which are so useful in re-establishing the prestige of deposed monarchs. This one was given to the world by Marques de Luca de Tena, editor of the Royalist Madrid daily, A. B. C. Said King Alfonso...
As an ex-Prime Minister, a Marques, a Lieutenant-General in the Spanish Army, Don Primo is entitled to a military funeral in Madrid, with the entire garrison brigade in the line of march. Such a funeral was planned for him; a host of grandees, churchmen, royal representatives and public...
Died. Lieutenant-General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja. Marques De Estella, 60, whilom Dictator of Spain; at Paris; of an embolism (see p. 25).
8.20 p. m.: In full uniform ablaze with medals Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdir, Grandee of Spain, Prime Minister, arrives at the Royal Palace and is formally received by His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, by the Grace of God King of...
8.40 p. m.: Citizen Primo de Rivera leaves the Palace, still a Marques, still a Duke, announcing formally to the press: "I have resigned as Prime Minister because of ill health. . . . The King has been pleased to call as my successor the Chief of his Military Household, Lieut. General Don...