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...vacation villa in Switzerland, Princess Grace of Monaco observed that "marriage is improving me. I am growing up. We hope to have a son" so that Princess Caroline, seven months, "won't have the problem of being heiress to the throne," but can "grow up to be anything she likes-even an actress.'' Vowed Grace: "Sooner or later those rumors about my pregnancy are going to be true...
Ready to enter Cheam School as one of twelve new boys in a student body of 90, Prince Charles, 8, heir apparent to the British throne, will get caned in the "customary place" if he doesn't behave, be limited to 35? a week spending money and will sleep with six or seven boys his own age in an unheated dormitory on a wooden, springless bed covered with a thin mattress. Said Queen Elizabeth II to her son when she saw the bed: "You won't be able to bounce on that...
...Commons, to cloak Bolingbroke's usurpation in an air of constitutionality. The formal phrases of abdication are written in rhyming couplets, which Gervasi delivers with heavy emphasis on accents and rhymes, his sing-song manner perfectly bringing out the empty formality and compulsion by which Richard is relinquishing his throne...
This being the day of His Majesty's happy accession to the throne, there will be given by Mr. Doggett an Orange Colour Livery with a Badge representing Liberty to be rowed for by Six Watermen that are out of their time within the year past. They are to row from London Bridge to Chelsea. It will be continued annually on the same day forever...
...Young to Reign. Four years later, when Louis XV died and the young pair ascended the throne ("We are too young to reign," they sobbed when told of the King's death), the new Louis XVI was still hoping to consummate his marriage and father an heir. In Marie Antoinette he had found a tender, sympathetic wife who, though apparently never in love with him, did all she could to aid his efforts and alleviate his shame. Already half mother, half schoolteacher, adolescent Marie Antoinette began slowly to civilize her royal booby. And when at last a minor surgical...