Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down for the "short session" prior to Nov. 20 at which time George V will open Parliament's new year with his Speech from the Throne. ¶ Were jolted by nation-wide municipal election returns ominous for the National Government...
Within a period of a few hours Spanish Monarchists were thunderstruck by three despatches: 1) The rich and curvesome young Cuban wife of Spain's sickly one-time heir to the throne, Alfonso, who abdicated his rights to marry her, had just deserted him. 2) Alfonso XIII was rumored to have made in Rome the first move in his long-rumored project of obtaining from Mother Church an annulment of his marriage to ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, first cousin of George V. 3) Prince Juan, on whom Spanish Royalists now pin their hopes as "the only available...
Since Lady Helen is not of royal blood Prince Juan, under the strict Bourbon rules of the Spanish Royal House, could not marry her without first putting aside his rights to the Throne. In Mayfair the Londonderrys have long been supposed to be the most potent partisans in Britain of a Spanish restoration. Would they let their daughter make a marriage which would wipe out the last real pretender to Spain's Throne...
...stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
...exciting women who ever lived. It begins when Madame du Barry (Dolores Del Rio) is brought to Louis XV (Reginald Owen) as nominee for a place in a distinguished line of mis tresses, and ends shortly before the Revolution when, with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with England; given her jewels to the poor; and presented herself at court in her nightgown...