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Norodom Sihanouk, the King of Cambodia, is an unorthodox young (30) monarch who plays the saxophone and composes jazz, has a personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and an air-conditioned throne room, and refuses to wear the $15,000 diamond-studded derby inherited from his kingly grandfather. But nothing in King Norodom's career was quite so unorthodox as the way he went to war last year against the Communist enemies of his small kingdom in southern Indo-China...
...wrists the Archbishop placed the Armills, or "Bracelets of sincerity and wisdom," over her shoulders was draped the golden Pallium, symbol of "the robe of righteousness and the garments of salvation." And to remind the monarch that "the whole world is subject to the Power and Empire of Christ our Redeemer," the Dean of Westminster presented her with the Orb, a golden globe surmounted by a cross...
Over all of the realms, Elizabeth II will reign but not govern; as a constitutional monarch, her political rights were classically defined by Political Scientist Walter Bagehot in 1867, as three: "to be consulted, to encourage, to warn." In addition, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, "she is also heir to all our united strength and loyalty . . . Thus we go forward, moving together in freedom and hope, spread across the oceans and under every sky and climate though...
...noted fretfully in his diary, after a 20-minute, opening-of-Parliament speech, that the crown "gave me an awful headache." After Ireland got dominion status, he observed, in the tone of an Alice-in-Wonderland monarch: "It is a bore having to change one's title, but I suppose it is inevitable...
After thinking it over, Nazimuddin decided that he would not challenge Ghulam Mohammad's "unconstitutional" use of the monarch's prerogative. But he held firm on one point: he would not leave the Prime Minister's residence until someone found him a new house-a difficult task in overcrowded Karachi...