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...Ranas won the championship of Nepal in a gory elimination tournament in 1846. The reigning monarch at that time was Rajendra Bikram Sahi, a blue-blooded Rajput (Hindu warrior caste) and a descendant of Vishnu the Lifesaver. For all that, the King was nuttier than a pecan tree in October. He and the Queen persuaded one of their generals, Jung Bahadur Rana, to murder their Prime Minister, who happened to be Jung Bahadur's uncle. Then Jung Bahadur helped the King murder the Queen's lover. She was put out about this, but not at the King...
Died. His Majesty King Gustaf V of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Wends, 92; at Drottningholm Palace near Stockholm. King Gustaf succeeded to the throne in 1907, held it longer than any other monarch in Sweden's history. He reigned through a gradual revolution which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded...
Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...
...precociously democratic monarch, William the Silent was drafted by the people of The Netherlands to be their king (1579), refused to wear a crown...