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...authority was frequently uninhibited: in 1896, John Norton, editor of the Sydney Truth, toasted Queen Victoria's good health and long life, "if only to keep her rascal of a turf-swindling, cardsharping, wife-debauching, boozing, rowdy of a son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, off the throne...
...Never Know. In Tanganyika, at the foot of snow-crowned Mount Kilimanjaro late last month, he faced an audience of 25,000, their heads protected from the scorching sun by black umbrellas. The mountain and the snow on it, said Billy, were gifts of God, whose throne is much higher. At the crucial moment, when he asked the listeners to raise their hands to witness their "decisions," no one did. Undaunted, Billy gently asked again through his Swahili interpreter: "You have not understood what I said. Listen carefully: you have never repented of your sins. You are willing...
Would Akihito, the first heir to the throne ever to marry a commoner, bend to the stifling ritual that is gradually isolating his father, the Emperor? Would he allow his son to be taken from him at the age of three to be raised by chamberlains in a separate palace? Akihito had said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed...
...child-descended, 7 lbs. 3 oz. and still nameless, was scarcely 24 hours old before his mother's subjects began deciding on his future. He stands second in line to the throne after Prince Charles. Would he have to follow the dreary tradition of most royal sons, growing up in uniform only to lead a life of ceremonial drudgery? "A royal prince," suggested the London Express, "who was a doctor or a nuclear physicist or an engineer-that would be a break with tradition...
Some Detroit Shriners turned out to be less outraged at such peccadilloes than at the man who got them in the newspaper: Walter Fuller. And before long, from the throne in Lincoln, Neb., Imperial Potentate Clayton F. Andrews delivered an imperial decree. Charging Fuller with "conduct unbecoming a Noble," Andrews commanded Newsman Fuller to "show cause why you should not be disciplined or suspended as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine." Journalist Fuller manfully stuck to his guns. "My first duty," he said, "is to the News." But he was hurt and perplexed...