Word: monarchal
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...Dail last week, up stood fiery young Deputy Con Lehane of Dublin. He asked Prime Minister John A. Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...
...same monarch to dissolve "the pretensed mariage with the Lady Anne of Cleves" (Henry's Queen...
...news of an envious, less comfortable monarch, see Persia...
...Gustaf himself, Europe's most indestructible monarch began the day with his usual breakfast: the yolks of a couple of two-and-a-half-minute eggs, one Dutch biscuit and a glass of tea. Then he put in 15 hours of celebration and ceremony. "My legs are just a bit weak," he admitted after a lurching false step in the throne room, "but otherwise I feel fine." Late that night, when he strode out on to the palace balcony to greet his people for the fourth time, his daughter-in-law the Crown Princess Louise gaped in wonder...
...decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this linen...