Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within a few hours, the good-will men were lunched by King Vittorio Emanuele and blessed by Pope Pius XI. Commander Savage later described how "King Emmanuel of Italy welcomed us in his summer palace at Pisa." "He is," said the Commander, "the most affable, democratic monarch it would be possible to meet. His speaking such perfect English made things especially easy for us." During the Pisa visit as the King finished talking with a knot of Legionaries and turned to leave them, a U. S. voice boomed: "Gangway for the King...
Proud of his master, King Al fonso, the Ambassador waxed indignant in answering the charges that his monarch had become the "slave of a dictator [Primo de Rivera]." Wrote...
These events were bitter pills for the Hungarian monarchists. Legitimists flocked to the Opposition; moderates became reactionaries; even Socialists were swayed to monarchism; the onetime Emperor became almost a martyr and his little son, "King" Otto, became a national idol. Count Albert Apponyi was one of the last Hungarian statesmen to see his rightful King alive. Said he once: "I shall never forget the shame of visiting His Majesty at the abbey at Tihany [where he was temporarily imprisoned by Hungarian troops prior to his delivery to the British]. If I had never been a monarchist before, I should have...
Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...
...later, after some good grouse shooting over Scottish moors, King Boris became Count Rilski, returned to London. Arriving there, he took a taxi to his hotel, paid a visit to the legation, which did not even know that he was in England. Then it became known that the incognito monarch was much more interested in collecting butterflies for his remarkable collection in Sofia-a collection given to him by "Foxy" Ferdinand, onetime (1908-18) King of Bulgaria-than he was in discovering a royal bride. And next in his interests were motor cars and steam locomotives, of both of which...