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Champagne & Fireflies. But for all the raining royalty, Constantine, at 24 the world's youngest king, on a throne by no means esteemed by all his people, his nation gnawed by economic problems and the Cyprus crisis, worked hard to make it a wedding week for all Greece to enjoy. Some 6,000 Greeks from all walks of life, many flown in from the Greek islands in chartered planes, were invited to receptions in the Tatoi Palace. Nearly 40,000 Athenians joined the royal couple one night for folk dances and music in Olympic Stadium. The honored guests-both...
...into just about every royal family in Europe. The present Bonaparte pretender, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, is a chap in his late 50s who lives in Paris with his wife and four children on an inherited income and rarely speaks to the Count of Paris, pretender to the Bourbon throne. The American branch of the family produced several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon I was taking his dog for a walk in Central Park...
...soon as he was rid of the King, Cromwell set up an even more harshly authoritarian regime, which was duly overthrown in the royal Restoration of 1660 when Charles II ascended the throne. Miss Wedgewood, who has lucidly portrayed the era in two previous books, The King's War and The King's Peace, avoids taking sides in this final volume on Charles. But, as she suggests, many another despot in succeeding wars and revolutions was to cite Cromwell's "blow for liberty" as a precedent for murder. Few have dared to claim God's sanction...
There was John Adams' wife Abigail, for example. She hung laundry in the East Room of the White House; yet she insisted on receiving visitors in a chair built like an empress' throne. Zachary Taylor's wife Margaret never wanted him to be President. She felt that it would deprive her "of his society and shorten his life," so she secluded herself in a wing of the White House, where she puffed away sulkily on a corncob pipe for the duration of his Administration. Mrs. U. S. Grant put so many tassels and hunks of ornate furniture...
...RISE OF KHRUSHCHEV (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC's 1963 White Paper on Nikita-the-Bold's ascent to the throne left vacant by Stalin. Chet-the-Huntley narrates. Repeat...