Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little later, slender Major General Mohammed Naguib, front man in the military coup which toppled playboy King Farouk from his throne last July, went on the air as the Republic of Egypt's first Premier and President. ". . . We proclaim today," said he, "in the name of the people, abolition of the monarchy...
Norodom Sihanouk, the King of Cambodia, is an unorthodox young (30) monarch who plays the saxophone and composes jazz, has a personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and an air-conditioned throne room, and refuses to wear the $15,000 diamond-studded derby inherited from his kingly grandfather. But nothing in King Norodom's career was quite so unorthodox as the way he went to war last year against the Communist enemies of his small kingdom in southern Indo-China...
...moment experienced before by only 52 men and six women in the 1,100-year history of England's throne had come to the fresh-faced yet stately young mistress of Buckingham Palace. In storybook raiment, with a storybook prince by her side, she stepped down to the courtyard and entered a coach of scarlet and gold...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...
...authentic ones. Gorgeous Heroine Anna Notaras, who is a sort of Greek Joan of Arc with painted toenails, is the dubbed-in daughter of history's Grand Duke Lukas Notaras. Her would-be lover, John Angelos, another Waltari creation, is depicted as the rightful heir to the Byzantine throne...