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...among the best historical films ever made. It provides a particularly good focus on the connection between sexual perversity and power in Nazi Germany, and the representation of the Night of the Long Knives is extremely chilling. Helmut Berger finds his ideal role as the mother-fixated incompetent heir, and the raven haired young girl he molests is enough to turn anyone into a pedophile. Peter Kaplan...
...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...
...close to the royal couple as they traveled the country. Later, at a cover portrait session Adams discovered that Juan Carlos, himself a dedicated amateur photographer, knew the Pulitzer prizewinner's work from camera magazines. In Brazil, Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, invited to cocktails with Alexander Karageorgevitch, 30, heir to the nonexistent throne of Yugoslavia, was surprised when the prince talked about living costs and recommended a "wonderful hotel in Spain-for only $8 a night." In Stockholm, Stringer Mary Johnson headed for the palace by subway, fell downstairs smashing her knee. Still, she arrived in time to handle...
Juliana's heir is Crown Princess Beatrix, 38, whose imperious ways have not endeared her to the Dutch. She made an unpopular marriage in 1966 to a German, Claus von Amsberg. However, Prince Claus, now 49, surprised royalty watchers by learning to speak
King Duarte II of Portugal, 68, whose family was deposed in 1910, still lives outside Lisbon but has no ambition to reign. His bachelor son, the Prince of Beira, 30, a businessman who also lives in Portugal, would be the heir if his former subjects voted to restore the Braganza dynasty...