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...cancel all recent public appearances. Last week, looking haggard and pained, Paul managed to attend the swearing in of the government of new Premier George Papandreou. That over, Paul abruptly took to his bed, named his only son, Constantine, 23, Regent of Greece, and temporarily stepped down from the throne to undergo a stomach operation...
Attention naturally focused on Greece's new young Regent. For the past eight years, Constantine has been carefully groomed to take over the throne. He was commissioned in the army, navy and air force, and often sat in when his father talked with government ministers. Tall, lean, and athletic, he won an Olympic Games yachting gold medal in 1960, becoming the first Greek Olympic winner in half a century. Last year Constantine became engaged to his cousin, 17-year-old Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, whom he will marry next January. "Our engagement was sudden, not planned beforehand...
Power Tool. In Spain, meanwhile, Prince Carlos' engagement set off renewed maneuvering over his tenuous claim to the Spanish throne. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, who wants a monarchy to succeed him but who is none too happy at the prospect of installing the present Spanish Pretender, Don Juan, went out of his way to welcome Carlos back to Madrid. The threat of competition from the Carlists would give Franco a useful lever to make disdainful Don Juan more receptive to his wishes. In Holland, all this maneuvering only served to increase the fear that Princess Irene...
...would soon announce a "happy family happening." As Bernhard flew off again to bring her home, the princess popped up at the house of her invisible suitor. He turned out to be Prince Carlos de Borbon y Parma, 33, whose family has its own remote claim to the Spanish throne. Paris-born Carlos is an athletic, brainy, offbeat grandee who studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne (economics, science, law), was a parachute champion, and served as a French air force captain. Irene and Carlos said they had been friends for several years, but only "formalized our feelings in Spain." Together...
Irene's fate was already sealed. By arriving in triumph with Carlos, instead of meekly returning alone to listen to official advice, the highhanded princess angered many important politicians-Catholic and Calvinist alike-who might have helped her. For the Dutch constitution specifies that an heir to the throne must either win approval for his marriage from the government and at least two-thirds of Parliament or renounce all claim to succession. If he marries in violation of the constitution, he is officially regarded "as dead...