Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome could have been more royal, despite the fact that Saud's arrival was prefaced by a storm of controversy started by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner Jr., who refused to offer the customary official city welcome. "He's a fellow," cried Bob Wagner, "who says slavery is legal, and that in his country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy...
...King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper of the royal jewels. One man, Abdullah Balkhair, handled...
...moment there is actually an empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The royal problem or mystery of Anastasia is romantic and intriguing. The movie about her, however...
...finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real Anastasia, so that the film clearly believes in Santa Claus. Unfortunately Santa Claus runs away with Yul Brynner. She renounces imminent royal recognition for love in a moderately tear-jerking, immoderately unconvincing manner...
...that the historical incident on which both the film and the show were based lacks interest. On the morning of the last day of January in 1889 Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which...