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Patient Stoic. The man with the best chance and with most at stake in the outcome is a 6-ft. 3-in. blueblood who has not lived in Spain for 31 years. He is Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 49, Count of Barcelona and Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country...
Paris and Rome. He keeps in constant touch with the 43-man Consejo Privado, his privy council in Spain, which already has drafted a plan for a constitutional monarchy against the day when Don Juan may take the throne...
...intellectuals among the Liberals, the Christian Democrats and other nonmonarchist groups are convinced that restoration of the king is the only sensible solution. The throne has no mass appeal among Spaniards; few have kind memories of Spain's ineffectual Borbon dynasty or long for the return of the golden carriages and the steel-hoofed clatter of hussars, the summer parties and the winter balls, the problems of precedence and the scramble for preference. But in the political vacuum that is bound to follow Franco, the monarchy might well be the only source of stability. Says one Catholic intellectual: "After...
Born. To Prince Albert of Liege, 28, heir to the Belgian throne; and Princess Paola, 24: their second child, first daughter; in Brussels. Name (after Prince Albert's mother, the late Queen Astrid ) : Astrid Josephine Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie...
Jordan's Dream Girl. King Hussein of Jordan also divorced his first wife, Egyptian Princess Dina, in 1957 after two years of marriage, one daughter, no heir. A lonely, courageous King on a shaky throne, he finally met "the girl of my dreams" three years later at a party given by the English colonel who was attached to the palace as chief security officer. The girl was his blue-eyed, brown-haired daughter, Toni Gardiner, 20, a merry, fresh-faced high school graduate who shares Hussein's love of fast cars and planes, and was working...