Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suspending the Exercise.' As soon as the Hendaye Statement became general news, the Republican Government was forced to publish the paper that Alfonso had signed before he left the palace. By no means an abdication, it was as dignified a statement as any ruler practically kicked from his throne could make...
While Republican Madrid roared itself hoarse in the streets, Alfonso stayed in his palace until 8 p. m. A little group of lean, white-haired nobles gathered in the throne room to bid him farewell. Slowly the King passed down the line of Royal Halberdiers. Through a side gate in the garden he stepped, entered his racing car which was waiting at the curb and sped through the city. President Alcala Zamora in a second car accompanied him to the city limits. On a hill overlooking Madrid, Alfonso got out for a moment to look back at the city...
...Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much for him. White-jacketed attendants carried him from the train on a stretcher...
...Spain's first Republic. In 1873 indomitable Maria Isabel (her father bore the surprising name, for a Bourbon consort, of Francis of Assisi) was a young woman of 22, already two years a widow. In 1868, the year of her marriage, her mother Queen Isabella was driven from the throne by an army mutiny. Liberals then proudly announced that the "spurious race of Bourbon" had disappeared forever...
Douglas Fairbanks was once presented at court in Madrid by Ambassador Moore. Awed by Court flunkeys and chamberlains, Cinemactor Fairbanks bowed to His Majesty. El Rey left the throne, approached confidentially...