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...civil list" salary. After all, out of that amount she has to pay the wages of some 280 workers of her palace household, ranging from chamberlain to chambermaid. Sympathetic Dutch legislators are expected to double Juliana's base pay, making her Europe's highest-paid monarch. The list...
...newspaper A.B.C. is an institution in Spain. Usually dull, always conservative, it is nevertheless the most widely read and influential paper in Madrid. Besides, as the semi-official organ of the nation's organized monarch ists, it can justly claim to represent the government's position that Franco will one day be succeeded by a King. Yet early one morning last week, security cops moved in on newsstands to confiscate all copies of the paper they could find, readers. It even was the grabbed first it time from that A.B.C. sidewalk had been banned since the fall...
...editorial extolling the virtues of the liberal monarchies of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands that landed A.B.C. in the soup. Instead of following the official attitude that a post-Franco "institutions" of the monarch must Franco regime, maintain the the paper praised Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, chief pretender to the throne, for promoting "a European monarchy, a democratic monarchy, a popular monarchy, a monarchy for all." Such thoughts are apparently still heresy in Franco's liberalized Spain...
...measure, King Hussein of Jordan is a moderate Arab monarch: antiCommunist, pro-Western, and opposed to throwing anything more threatening than verbal brickbats at Israel. Jordan has the longest and most vulnerable border with Israel of any of the Arab nations, is the first target of the Israelis' periodic retaliatory raids to Arab terrorist bombings...
...Keyes's story is about King Philip IV of Spain, who was born in 1605, died in 1665, and presided, an irresolute, unassertive and undistinguished monarch, over the sunset of the Spanish empire. There is not much story to tell, but Mrs. Keyes stuffs the holes in her plot with dates, names, panoply, history lessons, fashion shows, and archly veiled allusions to sex at the castle level...