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Married. Otto of Habsburg, 38, pretender to the throne of the pre-World War I Austro-Hungarian empire; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen-Hildburg-hausen, 26; in Nancy, France (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, a favorite son of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; of uremia; in Neuilly, France. In 1945, with his father, he was entertained by Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Red Sea, was long considered the likely successor to Saudi Arabia's throne...
...Mujaji III, described by the late Jan Christian Smuts as "handsome and intelligent," refuses to relinquish her throne, even at the age of 80. For several months now, the lands of the Lovedu have been parched with drought, which tribesmen regard as a direct result of the queen's defiance of tradition. But despite many a strong hint from her subjects, the rain queen has announced, "I will not drink the poison cup. Such things are no longer done...
Naturally the Pretender is looking for friends who will help him sweep doddering old George II off his throne. So far, so good, but there is disappointment ahead for the fan of historical who expects that all this will quickly lead to an old-fashioned uphill & down dale, with the agents of the Hanoverians in hot pursuit. Bonnie Prince Charlie settles down for a lot of long, long talk in the library...
...Travel. The final blow comes when he learns that solid old English Seaman Jenkins (as Novelists Shepard and Shepard tell it) was really a fraud who never lost an ear at all. Disillusioned, he turns his back on the English, the throne and "the contamination of power and vulgar success," and sets off on his travels again...