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Born. To Princess Margrethe, 28, heiress to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik, 33, the French-born former Count Henri de Monpezat: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...
...ordonnances [Down with decrees]," proclaimed posters on the Sorbonne's two main doors. The message gibed at the De Gaulle government's minor resort to government by decree last year, but the phrase echoed the slogan of the insurrection that toppled King Charles X from the French throne in 1830, after he issued four suppressive decrees. Taking the name from the general assembly that led to the French Revolution of 1789, students summoned an "estates general" of students and professors to meet in Paris this week; it will consider how to reform French education...
Constantine, 27, who fled to Rome after his abortive countercoup last December, spends his days waiting and watching Greece from a two-room business suite at the Eden. He lives with the increasing fear not only that he will not be invited to return to his throne but that Greece's ruling junta might do away with the monarchy altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly...
Protecting the Throne. This quiet regimen has given the King ample opportunity to reflect about what is happening at home. He knows that the longer he stays away the slimmer become his chances of regaining the throne. As things now stand, the ruling colonels are free to build a government to their own liking, without palace interference, yet with an "absent King" to protect their legal position as servants of the monarchy. The junta still professes loyalty to the monarchy, but it has a different kind of monarchy in mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine...
...apostle on the move," was the way Pope Paul VI referred to himself when he ascended the papal throne five years ago. Since then he has been as good as his word, logging five trips abroad, including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff...