Word: monarchal
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When the politicians went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in a stern mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...
King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
Cinemactor Rex Harrison plays Henry nimbly enough, but by trying for the man inside the monarch winds up neither very real nor very royal. Small, blonde English
...setting is a Middle European monarchy during World War II. Most of the play takes place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with...
...School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...