Word: monarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semi-sacred lap, and he died (at 78) safe, as it were, in the bosom of Stalin, only a troika's drive from the Kremlin. His life had come full circle, and so had the movement that began as a fight for freedom against an absolute monarch and ended in the absolutism of the one-party state...
...borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe's noble blood. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Spain's last ruling king, the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and a direct descendant of Louis XVI, France's last Bourbon monarch...
...their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...
...Juan has been considerably less critical since then, but has kept in close touch with opposition circles in Spain from his court-in-exile at the Villa Giralda in the Portuguese coastal resort of Estoril. Many Spaniards consider Don Juan a moderate, even a liberal, who as constitutional monarch would probably not. go along with many authoritarian practices of the Franco...
...Service. Malaysia's democracy has been suspended as a result of the riots. Three days after they began, both the Tunku and the constitutional monarch handed over all their powers to the ambitious Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. He now presides over a state-of-emergency ruling group called the National Operations Council. Heavily dependent on the military and Malay extremists for support, the N.O.C. government today is run by men who believe that Malaysia's only hope is to find a solution to the minority "problem"-and are willing to accept a lower standard of living...