Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconstruction purposes was in the offing for Rebel Spain on condition of good behavior. The British, sentimental about kings and queens, were unofficially advancing the cause of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy. They were said to favor putting Juan, Alfonso XIII's second surviving son, on the throne because: 1) he had a British mother (former Queen Victoria); 2) he was educated in the British Navy...
...played ball with the German invaders in the hope that Germany would sever Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having Paul van Zeeland, then Premier, push through Parliament a general amnesty granting full pardon to the post-War Flemish traitors...
Born. To Princess Kyra, 29, sister of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrilovitch, pre tender to the non-existent Russian throne; and Prince Louis Ferdinand, 31, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; a son, their first child; in Berlin...
...they were "writing a page of honor for the future Spanish fatherland." Historically minded Loyalists took heart by remembering that another Cortes had met in Cadiz in March 1812, in even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists" of 1812 (with the considerable help of the Duke of Wellington's British...
Besides poring over dusty old files of Arab newspapers and digging out much hitherto unpublished diplomatic correspondence, Author Antonius had long interviews with the leading figures of the Arab revolt. The late Hussein, having lost his Hejaz throne, recounted British promises bitterly, supplied several missing links. The late King Feisal of Iraq, Hussein's son, revealed that he had at first opposed the revolt against the Turks...