Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lungs. Luisa María has not yet given up hope that her dream man, Pretender Don Juan, son of the late King Alfonso XIII, will come to the throne. If only, she says, he were surrounded in his Portuguese exile by brave men instead of a "few shrewd but overcautious politicians." If only she could talk to him-"If I can't convince him, I'll go to the United States. I need more space. The air in Franco's Spain is not good for my lungs...
...week in the news for the younger set of kings and pretenders as Belgium's Baudouin, 20, mounted his father's throne. Other junior royalty in the limelight...
Feisal II, * 16, King of Iraq, already safe on his strawberry-colored throne in Bagdad. He has been twelve years a monarch (but not yet a ruler; Iraq is governed in Feisal's name by 38-year-old Regent Abdul Illah, the boy King's crafty, effeminate uncle). Weaned on a well-balanced formula of British manners and Arab morals (an English governess taught him etiquette in the mornings; Queen Mother Aliyah read Islamic literature in the evenings), swarthy Feisal grew up a toytown prince, boxed in by such old-fashioned playthings as a 3-ft.-long General...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
Prince Juan Carlos ("Juanito") Bourbon y Bourbon, 13, eldest son of Spain's Pretender Don Juan, reported last week to be the official (i.e., Franco-approved) candidate for the Spanish throne. A shy, spoiled teenager, who is maturing rapidly, Juanito was born in exile in Rome, never set foot in Spain until 1948, when General Franco invited him to study in Madrid. This year, in his fourth year exams at Madrid's blueblood St. Isidro high school-nimble-minded Juanito chalked up grades fit for a king in geography and history, still found time for bicycling, boxing...