Word: hubertus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a flourish of the pomp and ceremony that his single-class country paradoxically enjoys, curly-haired Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was formally installed last week as King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. At 27, the handsome bachelor is Europe's youngest monarch; he succeeds the oldest, his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf, who had died four days earlier...
...still rich in the esteem of his subjects. So when a constitutional commission announced a plan to strip the throne of its few remaining political powers, it also announced that there would be no change until the accession of 26-year-old Crown Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte. No longer head of the armed forces, no longer charged with resolving Cabinet crises, the future King will rattle around in a 700-room palace, having little to do except entertain dignitaries and pass out Nobel Prizes. Of all these changes, the prince says, "Monarchy is an old tradition...