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...growing out of his uniform." Philip's wife, Princess Elizabeth, has never been in Canada at all, though her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, owns an Alberta ranch, and her parents, King George and Queen Elizabeth, toured the Dominion in 1939. The heiress-presumptive to the British throne has, in fact, visited only one of the Commonwealth Dominions abroad, South Africa...
...members of Madrid's local nobility politely regretted that they would be unable to attend a reception for Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, and his bride, Princess Regina. It was all the doing of Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne and son of Spain's ex-Queen, Victoria Eugénie, who failed to receive an invitation to Otto's wedding last month. "I am sorry," said Don Juan, "but that ill-mannered individual was rude to my mother. I cannot forgive...
King Leopold III, storm center of Belgian politics since his surrender to the Germans in World War II, announced that he was giving up his throne next month, two months ahead of the promised date. Then His Majesty, with his commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, departed for a two-week vacation at the French Riviera. After the coronation of Leopold's eldest son July 17, Belgium's new monarch will be Baudouin...
Wearing a trench coat and pin-striped suit instead of his customary woven mat skirt, portly (300 Ibs.) Crown Prince Tungi, 32, arrived in Washington for his first visit to the U.S., looking more like a Western businessman than the heir to the throne of Tonga-a 150-island kingdom of 47,000 Polynesian subjects in the Central Pacific. Talking over his trip with the press, His Highness also discussed his reading habits. "I am reading everything I receive," he said, "except the London Times. It is really too long, and would take a second lifetime. So I merely mark...
...months later, young Mossadeq joined an unsuccessful revolution against the Shah's revocation of the new Iranian constitution, made street-corner speeches against the throne. The Shah's men advised that he leave the country...