Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...When you see a king," George Eliot wrote in 1868, "you see the work of many thousand men." The same might be said about the many TIME cover stories on monarchs over the decades. Totting them up in connection with this week's story on European royalty, we discovered that Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Emperors and Shahs have been on our cover 91 times since 1923, when the first, King Fuad I of Egypt, appeared. A few royals, such as Elizabeth II and her father George VI of Great Britain, Alfonso XIII (grandfather of Juan Carlos, Spain...
...dual task of dismantling nearly four decades of dictatorship while attempting to establish his own legitimacy as chief of state. Unlike his Bourbon ancestors, of whom Talleyrand said, "They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing," Juan Carlos proved a retentive student during his years as monarch-in-waiting...
...symbol been entirely shorn of substance. Any Prime Minister has to take seriously the monarch's right to advise and warn. Though Anthony Eden ignored Elizabeth's judgment that Britain should not make its disastrous 1956 Suez intervention, and was himself ruined by that adventure, the Queen strongly influenced Harold Wilson's decision to stop short of sending troops in countering Rhodesia's declaration of independence in 1965. Comparable governmental decisions have reflected the judgment of the Dutch and Belgian monarchs, and may possibly be seen in Spain in the future. In any event, both the ceremonial and less apparent...
...most recently unemployed monarch is Greece's King Constantino II, 35, who was ousted by a military junta in 1967. He lives quietly not far from London with his Queen, 'the former Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and their three children...