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Buganda's King "Freddy" Mutesa, 42, lost his palace-and nearly his life-last May. Burundi booted out its boy ruler, Ntare V, last month. Last week monarchic malaise infected Africa's newest nation, three-month-old Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), a country of 900,000 that is completely surrounded by South Africa...
...throne. That was small consolation to the angry, anxious Palestinian refugees who live close to the frontier with Israel. They demand protection from Israeli attack, and they do not care who supplies it. If the King will not, many of them are in a mood to turn to another ruler who will...
...great tide of regicide and republicanism that began with the French Revolution reached a high mark with World War I. The last European ruler to play the king game with real gusto was high-living Edward VII. His funeral, on May 20, 1910, was a perfect set piece to illustrate the end of the royal era. Glittering and clanking behind his catafalque came one emperor, nine kings, five heirs apparent, 40 royal highnesses, three queens and four dowager queens. Afterward all of them went back to their thrones and palaces, courtiers and horse guards and watched their world come apart...
...alternative. An indication of how seriously Britons take the institution is provided by the earnest current debate on whether Prince Charles should go to a university or not. Most people nowadays seem to prefer an educated monarch, but some feel that too much learning is dangerous for a ruler whose job, after all, is not to rule. Recalling that Elizabeth II was poorly educated when she came to the throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly...
...cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works by face-to-face salesmanship with Nikita Khrushchev. In the process, he also persuaded the Soviet ruler to pay Western authors royalties for their works published in Russia (in nonexportable rubles). "I told him," recalls Maxwell, "that if he didn't agree I would pirate the works of Soviet authors...