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...elected Royal Governor, usually translated as Regent. He was invested with some of the royal powers, was empowered to enact the legislation of his Royal Hungarian Government-but for whom was he acting? When Karl was alive, Horthy publicly declared that he was keeping the throne warm for his Monarch. After Karl's death in 1922, both he and his Premier, Count Bethlen, were known to have expressed themselves privately in favor of "King" Otto. But Horthy's love of splendor, his occupation of the Royal Palaces, his insistence upon a regal etiquette, have combined to discredit...
...would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded respect from a Saxon monarch...
...when the latter returned for the first time, Horthy successfully opposed him and, on his second attempt, to seize the throne, the Admiral fought him, had him handed over to the Allies, who took him to Madeira. In all fairness, Horthy was obliged to oppose the return of his Monarch, for the armies of the Little Entente were mobilizing on Hungary's frontiers. His alleged insolent attitude toward the Kaiser and the shelling of the Imperial train were unnecessary acts; and the royal state in which he now lives has firmly impressed upon a large percentage of the Hungarian...
...Monarch with their barking 6-inch guns; but the condemned ship's 11-inch steel gun protection withstood bravely the clattering shells...
Next into the fray came the majestic dreadnoughts Hood, Repulse, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Revenge. From a distance of over ten miles, their 15-inch guns belched their destructive salvos of heavy shells, and at the end of the ninth hour, the Monarch lay riddled in Davy Jones' locker...