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...both Parliament and popular referendum, which is likely, 12-year-old Princess Margrethe will be heiress presumptive (in the place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom...
...experts worrying: although he may be in London at the time, neither he nor the Duchess of Windsor will attend the coronation next June. Reason: "It would not be in accordance with constitutional usage for the coronation of a King or Queen of England to be attended by the sovereign or former sovereign of any state...
...first time since it received its charter in 1694, the Bank of England entertained a reigning sovereign at a meal within its vaulted halls on Threadneedle Street. Said Queen Elizabeth II, after she and the Duke of Edinburgh had lunched with the bank's governor: "I remember coming here as a child with my grandmother and being fascinated, as all children are, by the sight of so much gold...
...palace grounds in Marrakech, a photographer got a rare picture of the Sultan of Morocco at play. The result: a rubber-soled Mohammedan sovereign in Western dress and sub-Wimbledon form...
...early 18th centuries, flogging was prescribed 1) for anyone dunning an ambassador, 2) for a person slaughtering a horse without a license, 3) for any "incorrigible rogue," such as a man twice guilty of fortune telling or indecent exposure, 4) for pulling a gun in the presence of a sovereign. In the British army and in prisons, men were frequently sent to the "triangles" (the upright frame upon which the offender was spread-eagled for flogging) for insubordination. Flogging was the punishment decreed 1) in 1863 for garroters and robbery with violence, 2) in 1898 for homosexuality...