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Nepal's King Mahendra is a poet, tiger hunter and consummate wheeler-dealer. As monarch of a mile-high, land locked nation, one of whose principal exports is the steely little Gurkha soldier, Mahendra labors not only to hold his throne but also to keep his little kingdom from the jaws of its giant neighbors, Red China and India. He does this so successfully that, far from becoming a tasty morsel for its neigh bors, Nepal has wheedled all manner of goodies from both- not to mention the U.S. and Russia...
...outside Holland, this petty political game-and the government's anxious insistence that the Dutch monarchy must stay out of it-did not seem reason enough for Irene's own parents to boycott the wedding. But under the Dutch constitution the government is held responsible for the monarch's actions. Besides, Holland maintains a sometimes precarious balance between its Protestant and Catholic citizens, was thus bound to take the issue seriously...
...pressed the Arab monarch, "but what does...
...there was a difference: the girl's mother was Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. When the usually vacillating monarch finally put her foot down, willful Princess Irene of The Netherlands stormed out of the palace and drove off, tires screeching, to begin a week that scandalized the country, embarrassed the government and shook the royal family...
...Toole dominates the film, for his part is better written, and he plays it with a lacerating brilliance that rivals his own Lawrence of Arabia. Lusty, spindle-shanked, spiteful, neurasthenic, bored with responsibility, despising his wife and children, he gives the whore-mongering Henry dimension both as man and monarch. The film also advances a further suggestion about Henry: before he frees himself from his love of Becket...