Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal federation is to be much looser than Nasser's republic. The two monarchs are to keep their individual thrones and sovereign titles. The federation, to be organized within 90 days, is to have one flag, one army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head...
...healer's insidious influence over the Queen; there were even reports that Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided on a new approach. Marijke. who is blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other, had been sheltered from normal children's activities, and a helping hand stood by in case she fell. The new approach: let her fall. "The idea," one official...
Marijke, who will be eleven this month, has learned to swim. After many a tumble, she has mastered a bicycle, now rides it to school every day. Someone always goes with her but only to see her across the busy highway in front of the royal palace. She can read, does not require any special arrangements to keep up to her class. Soon Juliana's subjects were happily speculating about a miraculous restoration of Marijke's vision...
Last week the Dutch government issued a communique denying that there had been a sudden or sensational improvement in Marijke's sight. She can see no better than before, the government said. But by treating her as a normal girl, her royal parents undeniably had opened a new world for the little princess...
...fellows by becoming a bachelor of arts at 15 (he was known as the Boy Bachelor). He was ordained a priest before he was 30. A tireless writer and an administrator with ruthless business acumen, Wolsey went after church posts like a modern tycoon buying up companies. He became Royal Almoner to young King Henry VIII on his accession in 1509, within three years was privy councilor and below the King the strongest figure in the government of England...