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Ethiopians watched, he 'chuted to within 50 feet of the Lion of Judah's throne at the Addis Ababa airport. "So delighted was the King," Julian recalled, "that he climbed down most unprecedentedly from his throne, slapped me on the back, swore me in as an Ethiopian citizen, made me Colonel of the Air Forces, pinned on my chest the Menelik medal for bravery, and gave me 5,000 bucks in cash...
Stewart Granger plays the dual role of King Rudolf V of Ruritania and his British cousin, Rudolf Rassendyll, who are as alike as identical twins. When the king is kidnaped by his conniving brother Michael (Robert Douglas), who has designs on the throne, Rassendyll obligingly shaves off his mustache, rivets a monocle into his profile and steps into the royal breach. After much leaping from balconies, swinging from trees, swimming across moats, charging across drawbridges and assorted gunplay and swordplay, Michael gets his comeuppance, the king is restored to his throne, and Rassendyll returns to England, enthroned in the heart...
Within Boundaries 54. In which of these countries did the cabinet ask for a constitutional amendment permitting a female heir to occupy the throne...
...week's end the Falangists gathered in the throne room of Segovia's Alcazar: a mere 300 Blue Shirts, a few army officers-some wearing the German Iron Cross-and three former army chaplains. Presiding was General Moscardo, defender of Toledo's Alcazar. At night the Falangists paraded Segovia's floodlighted streets, singing songs and shouting Falange slogans...
...Giron, leader of the Falange extremists, was all for it, but there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which the beaten enemy was a foreign invader, not misled countrymen"; 4) the church, expressing itself through a Catholic Action leader: "Civil war is sometimes a necessity, but always hideous. The wound must be healed and forgotten...