Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means ridiculous, the illegal "Royalty" of Budapest are taken in. deadly earnest by the populace, by policemen who snap to attention as the "Royal"' motors pass, even by His Serene Highness Governor Horthy of the Kingdom of Hungary, who acts as regent for the vacant but existing Throne. Last week the Archduchess Isabella was reported "prostrated," and H. I. H. is not easily prostrated. All Budapest, all Hungary was agog...
...commonly said that $2,000,000 has been spent by Isabella and rich Hungarian associates to promote the candidacy of her son Albrecht for the Throne. This was the great lady's second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind...
...terrible rage, seeing her blood about to be balked of the Throne a second time, and again by a woman of the people, ambitious Isabella ordered Albrecht to take a cruise to South America "to forget."* With crafty meekness, Son Albrecht said he would obey his compelling, imperial mother. He duly set out for South America as she commanded, but stopped off for a day in Belgium to ruin her life work...
...Count chose to deliver an oracle conveyed to the meeting by War Minister Gömbö's: "Never fear! The Government will never permit a foreigner to mount the throne of Hungary...
...only to the extent that he claims to be Emperor of Austria as well as King of Hungary. By renouncing the former claim (and there is no chance that the potent Austrian socialists would stand for a restoration) Otto could easily comply with the Count's condition, ascend the Throne as a 100% Hungarian King...