Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that...
...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...
...surprise of his welcomers, he also proved to be a thoughtful, articulate spokesman for Iran's modernization plans and its need for economic and military help from the U.S. He took great pains to explain that he was not "an Oriental potentate, but a modern, liberal, constitutional monarch whose powers . . . are somewhat less than those [of] the King of Sweden...
Henry VIII had six wives and a horde of mistresses, but none of them apparently did he love so fiercely as high-spirited Anne Boleyn. With other women he was the imperious monarch, but with her he was sometimes reduced to nail-biting anxiety...
...luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work, too. I can be described, I hope, as a 'working" monarch...