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Elizabeth R., Masterpiece Theatre presents the fight for the throne between Elizabeth and Mary, 9, Feb. 20. Chan...
...prisoner for the first 30 years of his life because real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government. He proved to be adept at foreign affairs and kept Nepal in wary nonalignment between its two powerful neighbors, India and China...
...cultural-exchange show is a device with a long history. It originated with tribute-the bales of silk and beads, the slaves, parrots and bejeweled objects that envoys dragged into the foreign potentate's throne room as diplomatic lubricant. Over the centuries, gift became ritualized into loan. A cultural-exchange program has been part of U.S.-Soviet affairs for the past 13 years now, and whatever its actual effects on Realpolitik may be, the process is a harmless and edifying one. The latest manifestation of it is a huge compendium called "Soviet Union: Arts and Crafts in Ancient Times...
...Seasons, Sir Thomas More had to choose between his conscience and his King. The queenly star-crossed haters of Vivat! must choose between their hearts and their crowns. Mary counts the world well lost for love and loses her head. Elizabeth enfrosts her sexual urges to make her throne secure. The bitterness and the poignance are that Mary sees in Elizabeth the empire she might have commanded, and Elizabeth sees in Mary the personal fulfillment she might have gained...
Untold thousands of U.S. radios were tuned in during the small hours of the morning of Dec. 11, 1936, to hear a relay of the strained voice of handsome King Edward VIII of England announce that he was abdicating his throne because he could not go on "without the help and support of the woman I love." Soon untold millions of U.S. TV sets will be tuned to ABC's version of the royal romance -called, inevitably, For the Woman I Love. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway make creditable lookalikes for Edward of England and Wallis Simpson of Baltimore...