Word: monarchal
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Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, left his cigarets and matches at a Londonderry colliery pit mouth, put on overalls, descended torch in hand to the lowest coal seam. Said he to the miners: "I was born a monarch not because I chose to be but because it had to be. It is as necessary for me to work as it is for any other man. Your Prince of Wales and I are workers...
...Judd was more than a spiritual adviser to the Hawaiians. He was one of the first foreigners to foreswear his U. S. allegiance and become a subject of King Kamahameha III (1832-1854). He aided in establishing the first constitutional monarchy on the Islands. He served his brown-skinned monarch as Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior...
Whatever his real reason, the suave monarch did have fun. He slept in the Prince Albrecht Palace (occupied last year by plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...
...Poldavian sufferers. "We believe that our interests were betrayed at the Peace Conference," wrote Poldavian Lamidaeff. "and we appeal to you as a member of the French Parliament to do your utmost to help us in this our hour of need. The whole nation of Poldavia and its noble monarch who disregarded personal safety in 1916, and joined France in her War for justice and righteousness, pray you to remember our sacrifices...
...Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver, will turn his back upon him when he drives through Roman streets. In such state rides no other monarch, not even Japan's "Son of Heaven" Emperor...