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...today, his country was unable to pay its debts without loans from Aramco, and one of Faisal's first decisions had to be to cut the oil-fueled allowances of fellow princes. Faisal's predicament, explains a U.S. Middle East watcher, is that "he is a feudal monarch, and the more he modernizes, the more he is apt to undercut his basis for rule...
...attempt to dislodge the colonels in December of 1967, and the silence he maintained for most of his seven years in exile further eroded what sentiment remained for restoring the King to power. During the prereferendum campaign, Constantine emphasized his willingness to accept a purely ceremonial role as constitutional monarch. The voters, however, were not inclined to trust a man whom many still hold responsible for the bitter experience of the past seven years...
...calls himself Dr. Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country that, but for history, he might have ruled. Even Brazil shelters a would-be monarch: Alexander II of Yugoslavia, whose father, the deposed King Peter, died of pneumonia in California...
...that was such a success that he kept it up for over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal family. Gordon bridled at the suggestion that Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's cavalry-captain husband, be given a title. No British monarch, the argument went, has ever had commoners as grandchildren. "Well, wouldn't this be a jolly good time to start?" Gordon snapped...
...merry monarch, scandalous and poor...