Word: throne
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Constantine, 27, who fled to Rome after his abortive countercoup last December, spends his days waiting and watching Greece from a two-room business suite at the Eden. He lives with the increasing fear not only that he will not be invited to return to his throne but that Greece's ruling junta might do away with the monarchy altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly...
Protecting the Throne. This quiet regimen has given the King ample opportunity to reflect about what is happening at home. He knows that the longer he stays away the slimmer become his chances of regaining the throne. As things now stand, the ruling colonels are free to build a government to their own liking, without palace interference, yet with an "absent King" to protect their legal position as servants of the monarchy. The junta still professes loyalty to the monarchy, but it has a different kind of monarchy in mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine...
...succession question, he believes, will most probably result in a restoration of the monarchy. Two pretenders to the throne exist, however--Don Carlos and his son Juan Carlos. The viability of the government that emerges, Ridruejo feels, will depend heavily on who is chosen...
...King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince. "For me," said he, "Sonja will just be my wife...
Queen Victoria has proved to be considerably more durable than the British Empire. The stage has become her throne and she has moved from history into legend. For Helen Hayes, the role was the apex of an acting career. For Dorothy Tutin, 37, whose dramatic resources are rich, varied and unspent, it is more like a tiara worn with casual ele gance. William Francis' Portrait of a Queen, which opened on Broadway last week, is not so much a play as a pastiche-part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal, part dusty archive of political feuds. Most attractively...