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...augustly red-robed College of Cardinals has one vital function: election of the Pope. Last week Paul VI named 21 new cardinals, again enlarging and internationalizing the elite electorate. When he became Pope in 1963, Italians held 28 of 80 seats. After May 24, when the new members will be installed, Italians will number only 35 of 136 cardinals...
...drift of Sherman Yellen's book is that Henry divorced or beheaded wives in quest of a male heir. Actually, there was a son, Edward VI, who died at the age of 16. Scanting the versatile Renaissance man, Yellen paints the portrait of a male chauvinist executioner...
...excess is rarely titillating. The gold costumes of the bare-assed angels, their short aprons secured by thongs, don't need to be so banal. The Pope's Children, on the other hand, are artfully decked out in the bizarre and gaudy clothes of medieval Italy, and Alexander VI's cap is shoved raffishly and appropriately over his eyes...
...connection with this week's story on European royalty, we discovered that Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Emperors and Shahs have been on our cover 91 times since 1923, when the first, King Fuad I of Egypt, appeared. A few royals, such as Elizabeth II and her father George VI of Great Britain, Alfonso XIII (grandfather of Juan Carlos, Spain's present King, who is one of this week's cover subjects), have made TIME'S cover three or more times. In preparing this week's cover story, TIME reporters found that even in modern democracies...
...written by Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who sifted through mounds of material with the help of Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov. An American schooled in England, Demarest remembers glimpsing Elizabeth at the funeral of her grandfather King George V in 1936 and at the coronation of her father George VI. Recalls Demarest: "Those were the last great assemblages of empire. There were to be no more...