Word: bourbon
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...Bourbon dynasts left Madrid early last week, a happy madness filled the city. From countless housetops fluttered the Republican flag?three horizontal stripes of red, purple, yellow. All day and all night delirious crowds paraded, cavorted, gyrated in the streets with red stockinet "liberty caps" on their heads. Policemen who had been shooting at these same people three days before, turned their cloaks inside out to show the red lining, and grinned broadly. Workmen, feeling frightfully self important, chopped the crowns and shields off public buildings. In the midst of the celebration, some far-sighted official sent a fire engine...
...better known as Monseigneur le Due de Guise. As the father of the bridegroom, Le Roi fixed his thoughts last week on 1809. In that year, in this same Cathedral of Palermo, his ancestor Louis Philippe (then an exile like the Count of Paris today) married a Bourbon Princess and later became King of France (1830-48). Does history never repeat...
King Alfonso took the night to think things over. A Bourbon to the last, though a 20th Century Bourbon, he spent the evening at a movie show in his palace. With him were his children and Queen Victoria Eugenie, cousin of George V, granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...this the blood of the Bourbon boiled. "I agree to abdicate," haughtily retorted King Alfonso, "upon condition that I be permitted to leave Spain with appropriate honors, with full military honors...
Familiar are the main facts of his life: He was born a king. His blood is the most reactionary in Europe?both Habsburg and Bourbon. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His son & heir suffered for years from haemophilia (easy bleeding), was never expected to live for the succession, but is now apparently cured. Graven on the public mind is the fact that Alfonso plays polo a great deal, likes gunning and sailing, drives an automobile very fast...