Word: thrones
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...feel as though I were beginning my second reign," announced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi five weeks ago when he flew back to Teheran and to the throne of Iran. "I am older and more experienced, and [now] I know what I must...
While parading with fellow cadets at Sandhurst, the 17-year-old Duke of Kent, seventh in succession to the throne, glanced up briefly as a flight of jets buzzed low over the parade ground. His sharp-eyed sergeant major halted the company, read off the duke (addressing him as "Prince Edward Sir"), gave him the same punishment extended to several other eye rollers: writing 100 times, "I must not look up at airplanes while on parade...
...King Richard III describe himself. For almost 500 years, the world has pictured the last of the Plantagenets as one of history's arch villains: a homicidal ("I can smile, and murder while I smile"), deformed ("an envious mountain on my back . . .") schemer who usurped the throne and foully murdered the boy princes in the Tower...
Shocking Affair. Henry, the first Tudor, who himself usurped the throne by force of arms at the Battle of Bosworth, had every reason to blacken the memory of Richard in order to make his own crown more secure. It was at Henry's direction, says the Richardists, that Morton...
...parts. Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert add relaxed portraits of a newspaperman and a photographer to help the fun along. But it is Audrey Hepburn alone who makes the story come true. "Hell," said one Hollywoodian after seeing the picture, "the princess going back to her platinum throne. That's not so bad when you come to think of it, but it broke my heart. Just the look of that girl. It's one of those magic things...