Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Enemy, furious indignation was roused by news that the Facist garrison commander at Trieste had refused to transmit to King Vittorio Emanuele a plea for pardon signed by the Jugoslav youths. If His Majesty had pardoned them, Italian fury would probably have swept him from his Throne-for even Italians who hate Mussolini hate Jugoslavs ten times more...
Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment...
...London Evening News stated that the new Princess was not fourth in line but jointly third with her sister, Princess Elizabeth, quoted an opinion of the late famed Genealogist John Horace Round that the law specifically states that the throne shall go to the eldest son, does not specifically state that it shall go to the eldest daughter in case of a girl. Other papers taking it up, called for an Act of Parliament to fix the exact status of the newborn baby...
...alone, would have a morganatic marriage with red-headed Mme Magda Lupescu. Correspondents realized that even a morganatic marriage with Mme Lupescu would cause the finest series of anti-Semitic outbreaks Rumania has ever seen, that the Duchess of Guise is 52, and married to the Pretender to the throne of France. Married too are her three daughters. Rumania quickly discounted both rumors...
...Hungarian Press reported that ex-Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, unlikely pretender to the throne of Hungary, had given up all pretensions, declared he would marry a Mme Irene Lelbach Rudnay. Said the onetime Archduke: "I want to create a little Hungarian paradise in Brazil...