Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 42, peripatetic pretender to the Austrian throne, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 29: twin girls, their second and third daughters; in Würzburg, Germany. Names: Monika, Michaela. Weights...
...Menen's version, King Dasa-ratha is an old lecher who ministers to his harem more assiduously than to his people, and totters on his throne from lack of sleep. Venal flunkeys catch the king's ear, and tell him that his son Rama plans to kill him. Under a pious pretext, the old man banishes Rama from his kingdom for 14 years. Into exile with Rama go his dutiful wife Sita and his loyal brother...
...action interrupt these yarns. Amid flying swords and javelins, a robber tyrant takes Sita for his spoil, and the once dutiful wife rather likes it. In a war of comic confusion, Rama conquers the tyrant, wins Sita back, and, when his own evil father dies, resumes his rightful throne. The moral of it all? Rama asks as much of Poet Valmiki: "Is there anything that you believe is real?" Replies the poet (and the answer is obviously that of Hindu-Irish Author Menen): "Certainly, Rama. There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first...
There was a time when no monarch worthy of his ermine considered a throne worth sitting on unless its perquisites included a private yacht. But no more. Frederika of Greece, whose royal veins course with the blood of a host of Europe's kingly houses, has a throne but no yacht. Most of her royal cousins have neither. Then Frederika got an idea: she and her husband, King Paul, would play hosts to their less fortunate relatives aboard Greece's brand-new 5,500-ton liner Agamemnon. Gratefully, the members of Europe's royal families swept aboard...
Last week when the Agamemnon docked at Naples once again at the cruise's end. it was generally agreed that the trip had been a huge success, and as Don Juan, pretender to the throne of Spain, put it, a bit forlornly, "a fine chance for the children to get to know each other...