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There the representatives of the Christian world were accorded a standing place at the left hand of the famed Peacock Throne* of Persia. On the right stood high Persian dignitaries-most of them Moslems, some Christians. All had assembled for the coronation of a man who five years ago was a mere bandit, Reza Pahlavi, marauding in Persia at the head of some Russian Cossacks who would not stop fighting when their original master, the Tsar, was executed...
...other crowns and diadems, which they set beside the throne. Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret. With lithe dignity he seated himself on the Peacock Throne. Quickly he removed his cap. Almost as quickly he placed the Pahlavi crown upon his well groomed head.* Then he stood up and gazed about him, tingling at the feel of his imposing title: Shahinsha Reza Shah Pahlavi: "The King of Kings, Reza, King Pahlavi...
...called from the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails expanding as a background and solidly inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls, so as to simulate exactly the plumage of a peacock. Originally it stood at Delhi, now the capital of British India, once the seat of the Mogul Emperors, for whom it was made. In 1739 the invading Nadir Shah of Persia carried off this trinket, valued at 30 million dollars...
...fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love...
...lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel...