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...battle flags up steep paths toward a plateau on the mountaintop. There, at the heart of the old northern kingdom of Navarre, they gathered for their annual commemoration of two bloody 19th century civil wars in which their ancestors fought to put a Carlist king on the throne of Spain...
Reign in Spain. Carlism began in 1833, when King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some...
Petty Game. Dutch opinion, though in less perfervid language, essentially agreed that the princess was letting herself be used by the Carlists for their own purpose, however absurd, of gaining the Spanish throne. To a lot of people outside Holland, this petty political game-and the government's anxious insistence that the Dutch monarchy must stay out of it-did not seem reason enough for Irene's own parents to boycott the wedding. But under the Dutch constitution the government is held responsible for the monarch's actions. Besides, Holland maintains a sometimes precarious balance between...
...demands for wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted by glory and travail, had welcomed him as Louis the Desired...
...Parma, 34, "in Rome on neutral territory, thus avoiding any accusations of political intention." Irene's mother, Queen Juliana, nonetheless announced that neither she nor any of the royal family would attend the wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church to accommodate an expected 500 guests. But it looked like the royal top shots, including his uncle, Prince Felix, husband of Luxembourg's Grand Duchess, would be staying away...