Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Gustaf of Sweden, 86, who has played tennis indoors two or three times a week all winter, celebrated his new title as Sweden's longest-reigning monarch (37 years, 3 months, 24 days) by arranging an outdoor match at Drottningholm Castle...
...spark of revolt was left in Marshal Tito's nominal superior, young King Peter II. In Britain, the exiled monarch swallowed his brash objections of last January (TIME, Jan. 22), obediently picked three regents (two Titomen, one King's man) from a list of six sent him by the Marshal. With the royal capitulation in his hands, Tito swiftly merged his partisan National Committee of Liberation with the Royal Government of Premier Ivan Subasich to form the new (no longer royal) "Government of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia...
...officers and sailors saluting their guest at the rail saw one of the few living rulers who looks the part. Looming over them was a robed, resplendent Arab, 6 ft. 4 in. tall-the absolute monarch of some 3,000,000 subjects, the overlord of 3,500,000 more, the master of a few oases and of many deserts and mountains whose combined area (700,000 sq. mi.) is about one-fourth that of the U.S., the dominant Arab of the Middle East's Arab heartland...
...London Churchill wasted no time. He sent for King George. The 54-year-old Greek monarch was apprehensive that a temporary relinquishment of his throne might become permanent-that, in effect, he might be signing his abdication. But after Churchill had talked with him for an hour he consented to the Regency. A royal proclamation announced that the Archbishop had been authorized to "take all steps necessary to restore order and tranquility," that the King would not return to Greece "unless summoned by a free and fair expression of national will." The Archbishop proclaimed his own immediate two-point plan...
Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon, is a digest and condensation of the writings of Anna Leonowens, an English officer's widow who in 1862 was hired to teach English to the Siamese monarch's numerous wives and children. Always interesting and sometimes charming, it is surprisingly unsensational for a story of life in a harem...