Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Britons know that they have a tattooed King. Last week the days when George V was an earnest sailor prince and expected the Throne to be taken by his elder brother Albert Victor, were glowingly recalled by Captain R. G. Griffith R. N., in the highly authoritative British Nautical Magazine...
When his brother Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, died in 1892, Sailor Prince George had worked his way up to the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus. Reluctantly he left her to take up his duties as eventual heir to the throne, which included his marriage to the present Queen Mary (of Teck), his dead brother's fianc...
...hopped into a plane and abandoned his troops. But his Royal Highness sent back word that, "My withdrawal is only temporary." The delicacy of King Prajadhipok's position is that he must preserve at least diplomatic relations with his revolting relatives, while in order to keep his throne he must retain the support of Premier Bahol's Cabinet, tinged though its members are with Communistic ideas of national reform. Last week the princely rebels circulated a manifesto reading: "Our revolt is to place Prince Bavaradej on the throne, as it is now quite clearly apparent that our King...
...week to act out in good earnest the situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
Emperor Haile Selassie, who looks like an Old-Testament-bearded Spanish Jew, is a great fixer. He is said to have poisoned his way to the throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...