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Word: monarchical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlotte, mir him ek guer! [Charlotte, we love you]," cried thousands of weeping, waving burghers, crowding around the palace, right across the street from the showrooms of the capi tal's chief undertaker. At 68 the longest-ruling monarch in Europe, Grand Duchess Charlotte abdicated in favor of her son, Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano, 43, who promised to strive to "ban all that remains of moral and material misery" in his domain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxembourg: The Grandest Duchy | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

After almost 165 years' absence, eighteenth-century Britain has returned to Boston. The reigning monarch, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, now holds court at the Charles Playhouse, and his evening revels contain the funniest antics since George III went...

Author: By Peter GRANT Ey, | Title: The Rivals | 11/17/1964 | See Source »

...coach drawn by six white horses, Queen Elizabeth rode in state last week to the Palace of Westminster for the ceremonial opening of a new Parliament. Seldom has that arcane ritual seemed more at odds with reality. Elizabeth's "most gracious speech from the throne," written for the monarch by the first Labor government in her eleven-year reign, was a catalogue of welfare statism that immediately challenged the Tories' disposition to let the new administration "play itself in." Gambling its slender, five-seat majority in the House of Commons, Labor declared its determination to renationalize the steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Cruel to Lepers | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...nobly dressed bishops, judges, peers and politicians jammed the House of Lords last week as Queen Elizabeth arrived in a glass coach and took her seat on a gilded throne. Up strode a graceful man in a wig, damask robe and black velvet breeches. Kneeling, he handed the monarch her speech. Kneeling, he took it back after Elizabeth had read it - thus opening Parliament with a rit ual that has scarcely changed at all since the first Elizabeth performed it 400 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: Labor's Lord High Chancellor | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...months-although there has been an occasional, embarrassing mutiny among neutralist soldiers. During a recent Paris conference of the Laotian factions, Souvanna stood firm against unilateral concessions to the Reds. King Savang Vatthana got so vexed with the French for trying to pressure Souvanna into concessions that the monarch commissioned a new portrait in which his French decorations were conspicuously omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Improvement, If Not Joy | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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