Word: regente
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Bratiano-1) "Advised" the King to issue a proclamation reaffirming Carol's banishment, which the Monarch instantly did; 2) Gave an interview to the press in which he said: "I have not heard of any proposal to appoint Her Majesty a regent," although Bucharest was ringing with the project...
...petition to the Emperor, setting forth the sins of his countrymen, especially the politicians. Serene, he donned the death robe of one about to commit harakiri, and purchased a disemboweling knife. Shrewd, he covered the white death robe with a dark overgarment and lay in wait for Prince Regent Hirohito near the Regent's Palace...
Soon the sleek motor of the Prince Regent purred forth, on its way to the Imperial Palace. Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
Meanwhile the Chief of Police of Tokyo, bowed by the scandal that a member of the Goddess-descended Imperial House had thus suffered indignity, offered his resignation. Prince Regent Hirohito, clement, refused to allow the Chief of Police to resign, directed moreover that the priest Hirayama be not prosecuted...
Princess Teru-No-Miya-Shigeko, aged one, weight 28 pounds, height two feet four inches, precocious daughter of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...