Word: monarchic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth I illegitimate? Was she capable of pregnancy? Was she bald? How did she stand with the Pope? These were some of the questions that obsessed the minds of Britons 400 years ago, a time when high policy revolved about the person of the monarch. The answers did much to determine the shape of the modern world, and they lend a womanly interest to Elizabeth Jenkins' sprightly new biography of Elizabeth...
...pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded by Edward VIII, censorship was finally lifted). In the U.S. there were no objections. Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 604 performances on Broadway...
What had gone wrong in the sun-drenched paradise (no income taxes, no military service) ruled by Rainier and his beautiful Princess Grace, nee Kelly? The majority of the National Council wanted constitutional reforms and limits placed on the Prince's power-he is the only absolutist monarch left in Europe. The Prince, "thinking of my son" (Prince Albert, aged eleven months), and invoking the memory of his Grimaldi great-grandfather, Prince Albert I, was determined not to lose a single prerogative. When the council, which has only advisory powers, put pressure on the Prince by refusing to approve...
King's Trade Unionist. George's meticulously kept memorandums and letters give a levelheaded record of the advice he gave his advisers. He could write a letter to a brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing...
...Among the sad stories of the deaths of kings," says Author Turner, "the account of Charles II's last days is a horror-comic." When the monarch fell ill of kidney disease on a Sunday evening, Dr. Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...