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Under Norwegian law, only a royal male can inherit the throne...
Furthermore, the characters frequently cross themselves. And much is made of a crucifix from time to time; even one of the witches wears a pectoral cross. When Macbeth sits on his ill-gained throne and exclaims, "To be thus is nothing," he rips the cross from his chest and throws it to the floor, whence, in a neatly ironic touch, it is shortly picked up and handed back to him by the First Murderer...
...reshuffle was expected to have little effect on the position of Prince Juan Carlos, 35, who was named by Franco in July 1969 to be his eventual successor as chief of state. Who was the prince's chief mentor in his long training to assume the throne...
...revered by many Greeks as a living symbol of national unity, Constantine has no blood relations in the country. The royal family is descended from a Danish prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonder-burg-Glücksburg, who was installed by Russia, France and Britain on the throne in 1863, as King George I. Since Constantine's exile, there has been occasional speculation that he might eventually give up his Roman villa and join his wife's family in Denmark. But, says a friend, "if he moved into a palace in Copenhagen, it would look...
Engaged. Princess Anne, 22, second of Queen Elizabeth's four children and fourth in line to the British throne; and Lieut. Mark Phillips, 24, officer in the Queen's Dragoons {see THE WORLD...