Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March the Belgian Court welcomed King Gustavus of Sweden. This is,therefore, the second royal visit to the Belgian King and Queen within two months...
Despite the protests from various ultra-Protestant quarters, it was authoritatively stated that the King would visit the Pope during his stay in Rome...
This will be the first time that a reigning British monarch has ever paid a visit to the Pope since the Reformation-1534, complete separation from Rome by Act of Supremacy, which made it treason to deny that Henry VIII was the supreme head of the English Church...
...King of Spain arrived in Brussels on a visit to the King and Queen of the Belgians. King Albert of Belgium met King Alfonso of Spain on the railway station platform and they drove together in state to the palace along troop-lined and beflagged streets and amidst the tumultuous cheers of the people...
Hungary has a population of 7,840,832, according to the 1921 census. Of these, over 5,000,000 are peasants and almost solidly in favor of a Habsburg King. Recently when Admiral Horthy proposed to make a visit to an agricultural district, the peasants declared that they would be glad to see him, but if he expected them to build a triumphal arch, he would be very disappointed. There was, according to a wizened peasant spokesman, " only one man whom they would delight in so honoring, and his name is King Otto." That typifies their attitude...