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...Shakespeare, says Author Spencer, who best reflected in his plays the terrible split in men's minds between the old order and the new skepticism. In Richard II, Shakespeare showed the tragedy of a monarch who believed that the trappings of kingship were what made a king. In Henry V, he showed a king who knew "the hollowness of . . . ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before...
...Alfonso XIII paid a visit to Madrid's School of Fine Arts. Unknown to the King, students were rushed from room to room to give the monarch the impression that the school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly...
...Astor. The ballroom was draped with the ancient provincial emblems of the Dutch. Some 4,000 friends of The Netherlands cried "Lang Leve de Koningin" as the Queen walked to her chair on a dais, stiffly waving her white-gloved hand. While everyone else stood up, the monarch remained seated in her chair, told her audience in Dutch: "When ultimately victory is ours and this terrible time belongs to the past, there will rest upon our shoulders the heavy duty of building a better world...
...reigning monarch, though in exile, and as the richest woman in the world, the Queen could have had a lavish welcome. But she vetoed that. Next morning she chatted at length with some 200 Dutch sailors at the Home for Netherlands Seamen, decorated eleven of them and one Dutch nurse for heroism in action. After 27 hours in the gaudiest city of the world, the plain, sensible Queen of The Netherlands returned to her Cape Cod cottage in Lee, there to carry on her affairs of state and her shopping...
Ashoka (beloved of the gods) made India into a united nation in the 3rd Century B.C. He was "the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory." He also popularized Buddhist vegetarianism. After consolidating all India except the southernmost tip, Ashoka remorsefully swore off war, and ruled "for thirty-eight years, trying his utmost to promote peacefully the public good. He was always ready for public business 'at all times and at all places, whether I am dining or in the ladies' apartments, in my bedroom or in my closet, in my carriage...