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Alfonso XIII's father, Alfonso XII, was married to his pretty cousin Maria de las Mercedes de Montpensier only six months before she died. Almost immediately after he listened to the advice of his ministers and married the Habsburg archduchess Maria Christina, and to console himself entered into a liaison with the singer...
Carolina Martinez de Arrizola. According to legend he presented her with two sons and a complaisant husband, one Sanz. In 1885 Alfonso XII suddenly died. Three months after his death it was suddenly announced that the Queen was pregnant. Three months later Alfonso XIII was born and the little Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola boys, aged 2 and 5, were hastily smuggled to France...
...totally different nature is the exhibit now on view in the Treasure Room in Widener Library. This is a collection of signature of the kings and queens of all the royal houses of Europe, both past and present, Frederick the Great, Louis XII and Louis XVI of France, the Empress Eugenic, Victoria, the Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and Louis Phillipe are all represented in this exhibition. Some of the documents bearing royal signatures are proclamations, and other military commissions...
Apparently unscathed by the vagaries of finance. The Colophon continues on its leisurely way as a publication of more than ordinary distinction. Aristocratic in tone and appearance, catering as it does to la limited number of booklovers, it fulfills its function adequately. In Part XII for the first quarter of 1933 one notes especially the high standard of craftsmanship and typographic excellence, an excellence that is already a tradition with the Colophon...
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