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Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...Paris homecoming began on August 25, when TIME's chief War Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker and LIFE's photographer Bob Capa jeeped through the Porte d'Orléans directly behind the armored car of General Jacques Leclerc. As soon as they had shaken loose from the cheering, flower-throwing crowd they looked up a longtime member of our Paris staff who had spent the last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage...
...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...