Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, set out incognito last week on a royal vacation which took him through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown...
Boris is, of course, descended from the excessively blue-blooded Bourbon and Coburg stock. One of his great-grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...
...Tsar Ferdinand, his country conquered by the Allies during the War, abdicated in favor of his son, Boris. But Tsar Boris has never been crowned. "My country," he declares, "must not be put to the vast expense of a coronation...
...Coronations do not come so very dear. Subtle ex-Tsar Ferdinand smiles in his beard. He answers no questions. Little Tsar Boris motors with abandon, hunts in picturesque attire, confides to pressmen that he loves birds, flowers, wolfhounds, but no woman-and witless rumors fly. Behind the iridescent screen of these puerilities, the old Tsar tweaks many a string, moves about Europe in welcome obscurity, continues to be a force which statesmen do not neglect to recognize...
...there lives a grandson of Russia's last Tsar, what is his surname...