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...morning this week, just before noon, a servant entered the palace bed room of King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old constitutional monarch of Siam, and found the king's lifeless body. There was a bullet wound over his left eye, and a pistol lay at his left side. Courtiers who sniffed foul play remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament...
...their shrill voices sounding like the collective cooing of a thousand pigeons. In the crowded streets, the people yelled: "Yaish el Malek-Long live the King!" Abdullah Ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet, also known to his good British friends as "The Ab," had just been proclaimed monarch over the 30,000 square miles of lava and desert reaches and over the 300,000 souls of Trans-Jordan...
Behind him the tired, 76-year-old ex-monarch left his son Umberto (41) to become the fourth, and perhaps last, King of Italy. With the major political party, the Christian-Democrats, and virtually all the others, on record for a republic, Umberto II faced national elections a fortnight hence, launched an 11th-hour, last-ditch campaign to sell the people on the idea of "a renovated monarchy...
...People Change. The Queen has changed her mind about many other people and things. Before the war she was as conservative a monarch as could be found in Europe; she then expressed the character of a highly conservative people. But the Dutch changed under the Nazi occupation. Wilhelmina in London sensed the change, and, like a good daughter of the House of Orange, changed with them. When Cabinet members submitted programs she often said: "This is merely what you gentleman want. What would the Dutch people want...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...