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Bernadotte went through the motions of asking Napoleon, who exclaimed "Preposterous! Absurd!", but a few months later the Emperor made the best of it, approved the deal. So the Swedish people elected Bernadotte their Crown Prince, and Swedish King Karl XIII adopted the Frenchman as his son under the name Prince Karl Johan. In the eight years which ensued before Sweden's old King died, the Crown Prince consolidated his position, became one of Sweden's popular figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under...
...indeed excellent. We were fooled in the World War. As Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time." The great Pope Leo XIII enlarged on the crisp words of Lincoln...
...time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than Alfonso, would ascend the throne. The Duke of Maura, eldest son of the onetime Monarchist Premier...
...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
What Louis XIII could not foretell was that Louis XIV (Louis Hayward) would grow up into an arrogant wastrel, his brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...