Word: monarchistic
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...fall of 1932, Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen, monarchist, amateur philosopher and member of Bavaria'-landed gentry, was dining with a friend at a Munich restaurant. Like many other Germans during those disorderly times, he carried a revolver to protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering...
...them are great-great-great-grandchildren of King Christian IX of Denmark, and four of them are his great-great-grandchildren as well. Every one could have called Kaiser Wilhelm or Czar Nicholas cousin, but more than one started life as miss or mister. Any good monarchist or earnest Anglophile could identify the lot as the youth and flower of Britain's royal family, assembled for a rare group photograph over the holidays at Windsor. From the left: James, Sarah, George, Helen, Charles, David, Andrew, Marina, Anne, Edward...
...restore whomever he wished to Spain's throne. Until then, the Prince had shared his father's belief that "dynastic legality" must be maintained and that the Borbón line must not be interrupted. Commenting on the likelihood of Juan Carlos' elevation this week, Monarchist Mariano Robles, a lawyer and opponent of the Franco regime, declared: "It is suicide for the monarchy. It is the beginning of the end. A dictator cannot name a King. A King must succeed according to dynastic law. Otherwise it is not a monarchy, it is just a political game...
Since Spain's constitution pledges an eventual restoration of the monarchy, Spaniards have long scanned the official press for clues as to which of the Borbóns Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
...official pretender and conducts himself like a man who expects to be king. He receives advice from a shadow cabinet of royal councilors, holds audiences in his villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril and is attended at all times by a grandee of Spain. Last week the monarchist crowds in Madrid even dared chant a forbidden cry: "Long live King Juan...