Word: monarchistic
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...smell defeat," said pro-monarchist George Geogeoppulos, a retired army officer, after seeing the first returns. Defeat it was. By an unequivocal margin of 69.2%, Greece voted to abolish the monarchy that has ruled the country since 1833. At his home near London, exiled King Constantine, 34, disconsolately watched the televised election results mount against him. Meanwhile, thousands of his jubilant countrymen converged on Athens' Constitution Square to celebrate the birth of their nation as an "uncrowned democracy." Constantine now joins the small but select group of unemployed European monarchs (see box). In a brief statement of concession...
...Morrison-Knudsen, a Paris-based subsidiary of America's Morrison-Knudsen Co., while Michael of Rumania is a stockbroker in Lausanne. Some live off the money they or their family got out of the country. Others, like Italy's Umberto, manage very well with the help of monarchist friends who either hope to restore them to power or are moved by a sense of nostalgia...
Political activity has also picked up. Today walls and monuments everywhere are plastered with a monarchist-to-Maoist alphabet soup of obscure fringe parties, including, among others, M.R.P.P., C.D.S., P.P.M. and P.S.D.I. All seem to be catching up on a half-century of political intrigues, cabals and power plays. But in so doing they have exacerbated the country's debilitating political instability...
...untypical of the residual royals is the self-styled "Doktor Habsburg," recognized by a handful of monarchist followers as Emperor Otto I of Austria and King Otto II of Hungary. Scion of one of the great European dynasties -along with the Bourbons, the Windsors and Hohenzollerns-Otto von Habsburg was exiled in 1919 with his then reigning father, Emperor Charles 1 of Austria (King Charles IV of Hungary). Before the Anschluss in 1938, Hitler offered to restore Otto to his throne if he would support Nazi ideology. He refused, and during World War II, when he lived...
Constantine: Whether he ever was a monarchist is for him to say. However, I think he made a definite switch when he saw I was absolutely opposed to dictatorship and his form of government. He had to act to divert public attention from the difficulties the regime faced in the country-the student uprisings, the rebellion of naval officers, economic problems...