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...Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
Under the warm sun of a republic that suffers kings no more, Prince Henri of France, 24, the eldest son of the Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika...
...Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their beards: "The beard flourishes whenever there is a Queen on the throne of England. We've decided that when you're bearded that's the only eccentricity you're allowed-no flowered waistcoats, nothing else. And you have to be much cleaner-immaculate...
Many Americans and Englishmen have an idea that liberty was born with Magna Carta and grew steadily to maturity through the centuries. The Lion and the Throne exposes this fallacy. When Coke (rhymes with hook) was born (1552), the purpose of three centuries of English monarchs had been to ignore Magna Carta...
...Consumption. James sent Coke to the Tower of London, from which he was released primarily because his imprisonment weakened the prestige of the Crown. "Throw this man where you will," growled James, "and he falls upon his legs." Within three years James was dead, Charles I on the throne-and three years after that, Coke was back in Commons to participate in what has been called "the crisis of Parliaments." Said one member: "We shall know by this if Parliaments live or die ... Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Up stood Coke, 76 and full of "sturdy confidence...