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...ever stop to think," Frederika once asked Winston Churchill, "that if your Queen Victoria had died before she reached the throne, my father would now be King of England?" Because Victoria did survive, the Duke of Cumberland, Victoria's uncle and Frederika's great-great-grandfather, had to be satisfied with the Kingdom of Hanover, and that was lost forever in 1866 when his son took the losing side in a war with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter...
...facts, the romance had from the first the full approval of all the royal families concerned-the Hohenzollerns, the Hanovers, the Glücksburgs, who rule Greece, and even the Windsors, who, as rulers of Great Britain, must pass on the betrothals of all potential heirs to the British throne. On Jan. 9, 1938, two years after Frederika left school, she and Prince Paul were married by the Archbishop of Athens. Some 60 representatives of Europe's royal houses stood by to see the Crown Prince carry his bride off to his brother's palace in a golden...
...Platoon System. As Crown Princess of Greece, Frederika of Hanover was nearer to occupying a real throne than any member of her family had been for generations. But the shaky throne of the Glücksburgs was no stable institution like the one which long-lived Victoria had kept them from mounting in England. Some 3,000 years before, the ancient Greeks had cast out their hereditary rulers and set up the world's first democratic government. During all but one of the many centuries since the collapse of those democracies, the Greeks have lived as conquered peoples under...
...Danish royal house of Glücksburg to come over and try his hand. In 1863 he was crowned George I, King of the Hellenes; 50 years later, he was assassinated. Ever since then, the Greek people have been voting the patient Glücksburgs on and off their throne with the unpredictable frequency of a football coach substituting players under the two-platoon system. Paul's brother. George II, was enthroned three times and dethroned twice. Their father. King Constantine, was twice called to the throne and twice thrown...
...Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits of the Cana Christians puts him on the road to conversion. The final act is played in Rome, with Caligula on the throne and the Christians hiding in the catacombs. The picture ends as Burton defends his new faith before the demented Emperor...