Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son. Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
Unfortunately the adjective is actually two adjectives, one in the English text of the Treaty of Trianon, and the other in the supposedly identical French text. The adjective is "royal," and it is also "regnant," which most scholars would translate "ruling," not "royal...
...person could be found whose family had been royal but not regnant, he might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
...Archduke's lawyers argued that his personal family was never "regnant." It was "royal," since he was a cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph, but not "regnant" positively not "regnant." Therefore his estates should never have been confiscated, must be promptly returned...
Attorneys arguing for the Czechoslovak Republic brushed aside any distinction between "royal" and "regnant." Was a case involving $125,000,000 to be decided by the splitting of a hair? Besides everyone knows that "Papa Friedrich's" son, the Archduke Albrecht (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), is one of several pretenders to the vacant Throne of Hungary. How preposterous, then, is any claim that the Archducal estates should not have been confiscated...