Word: orl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two men who knew more about this than anyone else. One was the French Pretender himself. Slender, sharp-nosed, soft-chinned Henri de Bourbon-Orléans, Comte de Paris, 34, was last week, as French law requires of pretenders, in exile. This descendant of the effulgent Bourbon kings through Louis Philippe d'Orléans was biding his time in a sprawling white villa in the quiet little Spanish Moroccan port of Larache, only 600 miles from the headquarters of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower...
...Comte de Paris, despite a somewhat squirrelish appearance, is personally a likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
...Orléans the prisoners were entrained and told they were going home. Instead they were taken to a huge baronial estate in Pomerania. Treatment of the prisoners was barbarous: Hélion saw one Frenchman clubbed to death for taking a second helping of soup...
Married. Dom Duarte Nuño, 35, Austrian-born-and-educated pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans and Braganza, 28, his remote cousin, great granddaughter of the late Dom Pedro II, second and last Emperor of Brazil; in Petropolis, Brazilian summer resort founded by her family. Dom Duarte has never lived in Portugal. His grandfather was Dom Miguel I, deposed as King of Portugal in 1834. Among the bride's wedding presents: a $15,000 aquamarine and platinum necklace...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...