Word: monarches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later, in a gleaming blue Cadillac, Otto and his bride left Nancy for a honeymoon in Spain. "At least," sighed an old Viennese in the crowd watching the departure, "he has been a monarch for two days...
...Death came recently to this beloved monarch...
King Farouk, so the story went more than a year ago, saw a lovely girl shopping with her beau in Cairo for an engagement ring. Egypt's fat monarch, who had divorced Queen Farida, decided then & there that Narriman Sadek, the 16-year-old daughter of a civil servant, must be his next wife. Narriman's beau, Zaki Hachem, 27, Harvard-trained and a U.N. official, was swept out of his sweetheart's life. "A bad dream," he muttered. "I did not think such things could happen in the 20th Century." Then he lapsed into silence...
...Ranas won the championship of Nepal in a gory elimination tournament in 1846. The reigning monarch at that time was Rajendra Bikram Sahi, a blue-blooded Rajput (Hindu warrior caste) and a descendant of Vishnu the Lifesaver. For all that, the King was nuttier than a pecan tree in October. He and the Queen persuaded one of their generals, Jung Bahadur Rana, to murder their Prime Minister, who happened to be Jung Bahadur's uncle. Then Jung Bahadur helped the King murder the Queen's lover. She was put out about this, but not at the King...
Died. His Majesty King Gustaf V of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Wends, 92; at Drottningholm Palace near Stockholm. King Gustaf succeeded to the throne in 1907, held it longer than any other monarch in Sweden's history. He reigned through a gradual revolution which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded...