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...gala day in Bangkok. Prince Vajiralongkorn was being invested at Parliament House as heir to the throne of Thailand, and most foreign diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Rehavam Amir, were among those attending the ceremony. In short, the city's embassies were quiet and relaxed. All, that is, except the Israeli Embassy on Soi Lang Suan ("The Lane Behind the Orchard"). In the hot tropical sun of high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise...
...monarchs to be a wholly singular creature. "She not merely filled the chair. She filled the room," remarked the Duke of Wellington, a man not easily impressed, when he saw her after she had received the news of William IV's death and her own accession to the throne...
Victoria took the throne at a time when it seemed the English monarchy could be either liked or respected, but not both. "Notwithstanding his feebleness of purpose and littleness of mind, his ignorance and his prejudices," the Spectator editorialized after her uncle's death, "William the Fourth was to the last a popular sovereign; but his very popularity was acquired at the price of something like public contempt...
...dashing young king gives up his throne for a woman while half the world breathlessly watches and listens. The courtship of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson may be the romance of the century; but to the producers of this dramatized recreation, it is just another soap opera, with Windsor Castle taking the place of General Hospital, Edward standing in for the handsome doctor on rounds, and poor Wally playing the inevitable "other woman...
After Papa Doc died, it soon became clear that there was not enough room behind the throne for both Cambronne and Marie-Denise. Cambronne first managed to get Marie-Denise and her husband Max Dominique ordered out of the country. A few months later, while the Dominiques were vacationing in Acapulco, he had Max fired from his post as Haitian ambassador to Paris. After living in exile in Paris and Washington, D.C., for several months, the persistent Marie-Denise turned up in Haiti again last September. Haitian exiles in the U.S. soon speculated that there would be another showdown...