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...Only Man. "Maintain" was not really the word. "Prevail" was more like it. All her life she spoke of the pomp and protocol that enveloped her as "the cage," and she never ceased struggling to escape its confines. As a constitutional monarch she had limited executive powers; yet she learned statecraft so thoroughly that Cabinet ministers were constantly being stumped by her sharp questioning. In exile during World War II, so efficient was she that one escaped Dutch Resistance fighter marveled. "The government in London was a bunch of chattering wives, but there was one man: the Queen...
Valentino's two friends, Scandal the misanthrope and Tattle the fop, are presented by Messrs. Rawson and Schmidt. Mr. Rawson has been dressed up to look like the Merry Monarch, but he sounds like Chris Rawson, which is somehow wrong. Mr. Schmidt postures very fastidiously...
...Bakwanga and take over. It was easy, for a restive and well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from fellow separatist Moise Tshombe...
Biggest source of friction has always been the Bantu kingdom of Buganda, which has one-fourth of the new country's area, one-third of the population and nearly all the wealth. Under Kabaka (King) Frederick Mutesa II, the 36th monarch of Africa's oldest continuously ruling dynasty, Buganda tried to secede from the Uganda Protectorate in 1961. When the British government firmly refused to permit the creation of a new Katanga in its erstwhile colony, Cambridge-educated King Freddie did an about-face and combined forces with Apollo Milton Obote, who had risen from Nilotic herd...
Born. To King Hassan II, 33, monarch of Morocco, and his wife, Latifa, 15, daughter of a prominent Berber family: their first child, a girl; in Rome (see THE WORLD...