Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinarily good run of health, may be worried over who succeeds him, Dictator Francisco Franco, 64, has agreed that he will permit the restoration of the Spanish monarchy at some unspecified future date. In 1954 he reached a secret understanding with Don Juan, the Pretender to the Spanish throne, who lives in exile in Portugal, for his son Prince Juan Carlos to attend the military academy in Spain. Last week Franco gave Spaniards a sketch of the kind of monarchy he is planning for Spain...
...admiral's rank only this spring) went on to describe Franco as "one of those gifts that Providence grants a nation every three or four centuries," a man "fundamentally antiliberal, anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist." "The person" Franco would choose to "sit in his time on the throne." continued the admiral, would be a man "perfectly identified with" and "absolutely loyal to" the Falange movement. This suggested, just as many Spanish monarchists have long uneasily suspected, that Franco intends to crown not the No. 1 heir Don Juan, but his young son Prince Juan Carlos. Compared with the British...
...Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
Under the warm sun of a republic that suffers kings no more, Prince Henri of France, 24, the eldest son of the Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika...
...Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their beards: "The beard flourishes whenever there is a Queen on the throne of England. We've decided that when you're bearded that's the only eccentricity you're allowed-no flowered waistcoats, nothing else. And you have to be much cleaner-immaculate...