Word: monarquica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, redhaired, two-fisted Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, had been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
...government, after years of tight-lipped toleration of the anti-Franco monarchists, was cracking down. The dictator's police gave no explanations, made no charges. But by week's end it had jailed incommunicado more than 30 members of the militant monarchist faction, Avan-zadilla Monarquica...
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