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Since a condition of his return was Freddie's acceptance of the status of a constitutional monarch, Britain hoped that he might actually be a help in establishing a democratic government. But 33-year-old King Freddie is a proud man who represents a dynasty that goes back to the 15th century. No sooner was he safely back in his palace in Kampala than he began to show signs of wanting to be every inch the king his ancestors were...
...Freddie throws off the hampering moral ties of Anglicanism, as he has been trying to throw off the political hold of Britain, the tribalists may in gratitude try to get rid of the progressives once and for all by restoring the Kabaka to his former status as absolute monarch. Said a colonial official sadly: "King Freddie is not the sort of monarch Britain wants...
From Egypt to Sinai. Fast agrees with Freud and others that Moses' monotheism is traceable to the great Egyptian monarch, AkhenAton (also known as Ikhnaton), who forswore all gods save the Sun-God Aton. But where Freud guessed that Moses was an Egyptian by birth. Novelist Fast makes him an Egyptian merely by adoption and education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest...
...shadows. For the first time in the eight-year reign of the chubby Prince, the National Council (which is elected by Monaco's male citizens, has only advisory power) dared to challenge Rainier's status as Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that he fire his luxury-loving Minister of State. When Rainier retorted, "I will accept no limitations of my powers," there, for the moment, the matter rested, and all Monaco went back to listening for the great boom...
...consisted, says Author Mitford tartly, "of middle-class intellectuals, cosmopolitan Sodomites and Prussian soldiers"; moreover, jealous Emilie detested Frederick for trying to lure her lover to the Prussian court. Frederick's efforts to do so make some of the funniest sections of the book. Luckily for Emilie. monarch and mocker could not always hit it off-though Voltaire, in his way, was a just man and never wearied of saying "what a miracle [it was] that this son of a crowned ogre, brought up among animals, should have such a great love of French civilization." In long, nattering letters...