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...Covadonga, eldest son of Spain's ex-King Alfonso XIII, at receiving a case of whiskey from his comely Cuban wife that he spent his monthly allowance of $200 on a steamship ticket to Manhattan. Besides rejoining his wife, the haemophilic Count, who lost his pretensions to the throne and his title (Prince of Asturias) by marrying a commoner, planned to hunt work as a cinemactor. Said he: "My wife and I would be together now if it were not for Father. Father wanted the marriage annulled but I said: 'Nuts, I won't give you that...
...muscular Guards lieutenant named Orlov. But meantime she was making herself as popular as Peter, with his anti-Russian fads, was making himself disliked. When the old Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says Biographer Kaus. Rather than punish her lover, Catherine shouldered the blame for her husband's death...
BEFORE the Jubilee year is ended, King George's loyal subjects will have issued many a book to commemorate his accession to the British throne, but one may venture to prophesy that few, if any, will be so interesting as Sir Austen Chamberlain's compilation of eighty-three illustrations in photogravure from the Pathe film of the same title as the present work's. Sir Austen has also written the foreword, which states the significance of the Crown today, and as a former member of H. M. Government he must certainly speak for a large and representative body of British...
After the Lord Mayor came the Royal Family's processions, the Duke of York's two carriages, with "Baby Betty" and the newlywed Duchess of Kent rival attractions. As heir to the Throne, Edward of Wales drove out smartly with a cavalcade of Life Guards, his grave aunt, Queen Maud of Norway, at his side and opposite the Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side...
...excuse Venizelos, "Father of the Greek Republic," gave for his rebellion was that Premier Tsaldaris was plotting to restore Greece's King George II to the throne. An obstacle to any such plot was Tsaldaris' War Minister General George Kondylis, who once said, "King George will return over my dead body." Last week, at the instigation of Premier Tsaldaris who was ill with kidney trouble, Kondylis announced that the Government is willing to let the Greek people vote on whether they want a republic or a monarchy. Greek politicians hastened to climb on the monarchist bandwagon. And George...