Word: monarchs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kajar Shahs (who had ruled the country for more than a century, were deposed in 1925). His father, Mirza Hedayat, was for 30 years the Shah's Finance Minister. His mother, Najmos Saltaneh, was a Kajar princess, the cousin of the Shah Nasr-ed-Din, an uxorious monarch (he had 50 wives) who hated foreigners...
...hours later, in a gleaming blue Cadillac, Otto and his bride left Nancy for a honeymoon in Spain. "At least," sighed an old Viennese in the crowd watching the departure, "he has been a monarch for two days...
...proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor George Walsh who had added 6½ inches to the royal chest. Crowed Walsh: King Frederik is "the strongest monarch in history...
...Death came recently to this beloved monarch...
King Farouk, so the story went more than a year ago, saw a lovely girl shopping with her beau in Cairo for an engagement ring. Egypt's fat monarch, who had divorced Queen Farida, decided then & there that Narriman Sadek, the 16-year-old daughter of a civil servant, must be his next wife. Narriman's beau, Zaki Hachem, 27, Harvard-trained and a U.N. official, was swept out of his sweetheart's life. "A bad dream," he muttered. "I did not think such things could happen in the 20th Century." Then he lapsed into silence...