Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forever casting about for reasons for their own lack of reason . . . With the second group . . . I see something more: this has been, if not my personal tragedy, then my continuing folly." Did the duchess ever consider jilting Edward VIII, or was her eye always on Britain's throne until he left it? She tantalizes her readers: "With a great throne at stake, a vast empire seething . . . I was unprepared and unarmed . . . in the eye of the storm . . . Had I had my way, when eleventh-hour full understanding finally came to me, this story would have had a different ending...
...tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate Sultan ben Youssef. Last fall he reversed himself when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef, helped recall him to the throne, crawled on his hands and knees to beg forgiveness: "I am a slave at His Majesty's feet ... May heaven's curse fall upon those who deceived...
There is a villain (Basil Rathbone), a palace witch (Mildred Natwick), a princess royal (Angela Lansbury) and a political poison plot. When the squirrely-burly's done, Jester Kaye has managed to get the false king on his knees, the true one on the throne, the heroine (Glynis Johns) in his arms, the villain on his point, and the audience happily lost in some muddle ages that no history book records...
...seems to me the burning question is not who will be the next President, but who will be the Assistant to the President-the power behind the throne...
...Handsome, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) King Paul, 54, inherited the battered Greek crown from his late brother George II in 1947 when Greece was bleeding from the civil war, and with his vivacious Queen Frederika, toured the country by jeep and muleback to restore confidence in the throne. He reigns with a minimum of pomp and with a warm public following...