Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, rumors spread. The lonely bachelor monarch was again looking for a mate to share his throne. And busybodies-imperious dowagers, pseudo-diplomats, plain tittle-tattlers-began guessing, as they do each year that Boris takes a few days off, as to whom he might choose as his Queen. Names of all the probable and improbable princesses were pondered; the political effects of a dozen possible liasons were dis- cussed and expanded to absurd proportions. But to no avail...
...full sovereignty within the Commonwealth; for by that decision George V became as much King of Ireland as he is King of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. Today Irishmen in the Free States who are loyal to the treaty toast the King not as the English monarch but as the King of Ireland...
Despatches revealed, last week, that, during the funeral of King Ferdinand, the dead monarch's robe was suddenly flirted by the wind in such a way that part of it covered the head of Prince Nicholas, while he was assisting the pallbearers. This "sign," said many superstitious Rumanians, indicates that Prince Nicholas will some day succeed his father as King. He would do so automatically should five-year-old Michael...
...their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen; but they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand, although never a dynamic or very statesmanly monarch, was assisted to a great reward by his integrity of purpose, by his magnetic consort, "The Mother-in-Law of the Balkans," and by the powerful dynasty of Jon Bratiano which now overshadows royalty itself in Rumania...
...past five years every toman ($1) spent by the Government of Persia has required the authorization of Dr. Millspaugh, who must even dole out to "The King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlavi, that monarch's monthly allowance for his army and himself, 750,000 tomans...