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...Into office as Secretary of State for Air went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
...succeeded where two before her had failed. The Shah's first wife, Fawzia, sister of Egypt's then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced her in 1948. His seven-year marriage to Soraya, handsome daughter of a German-Iranian family, proved barren. His throne is none too secure, and the Shah and his advisers were convinced that a male heir was imperative if the monarchy was to survive. Regretfully, he divorced Soraya in 1958 and last year married Farah Diba, who had caught his eye while a blue-jean-clad student of architecture...
...recently published memoirs, My Mission to My Country, the Shah criticized his own upbringing as too harsh and promised that he would give his son a democratic education. But as long as the Shah hangs onto his throne, the boy will not escape the trappings of royalty. Some time within a year or so, when the Shah celebrates his own much delayed coronation, young Prince Reza Cyrus will be perched atop his father's knee on the Peacock Throne...
...used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...
...bankers; he just could not make ends meet, even though he got $12.5 million from Qatar's $50 million annual oil revenue. Soon Qatar's anxious bankers were backing young (30) Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad, Ali's nephew, who thought he was in line for the throne, and was pressing the old man to step down. The British, who watch over Qatar as a protectorate, took a hand when they detected signs of simmering insurrection among the Sheik's long-suffering subjects...