Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah once, for ten minutes. I deny reports of our engagement." To friends, she reportedly said of the Shah: "He is old enough to be my father, and looks like my grandfather." Yet -a strong point in his favor -he is one of the few kings who have a throne...
...name was linked with Don Juan Carlos, son of the Pretender to the Spanish throne ("He was made for her," sighed the weekly Epoca. "Six feet tall with wavy blond hair and blue eyes full of melancholy"), and with Britain's sportive Duke of Kent. The princess said nothing about either of the young men, went quietly back to her studies in Switzerland...
Papal Message. In his capital city of Teheran, where his own life is not squalid, the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message...
...Iranian constitution offered a stumbling block with its requirement that the heir to the throne have an Iranian mother. But court circles suggested that this explicit injunction might not be interpreted too rigidly, as long as Princess Ella allowed her children to be raised as Moslems. At week's end the Shah's matchmaking sister, Princess Chams, who arranged his earlier marriage to Soraya, was in Geneva, ostensibly for sinus treatment but presumably ready, willing and able to conduct further negotiations between the Peacock Throne and the House of Savoy. As for tall, irenic Princess Gabriella...
...Actually, in 1925. In that year the Shah's father, a onetime cavalryman, seized the throne...