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British to restore him to his throne last year after a two-year exile, played valiantly, but he and his boys were edged by the agile Seniles...
Britain's most loyal ally in the Middle East, Iraq's young (21) King Feisal II, jubilantly showed up at Buckingham Palace for a state visit to a power behind his throne. Flanked by his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...Contents," intoned the Lord Chancellor, his full-bottomed wig flapping spaniel-eared against his plump, ashen cheeks, "will vote in the lobby to the right of the throne; not-contents to the left of the bar." As the slow mass-movement of Britain's lords temporal and spiritual to one or the other side of their august chamber was completed, the not-contents outnumbered their opponents by 238 to 95. By thus refusing to approve a House of Commons bill to abolish capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), the House of Lords last week flung the first direct challenge...
...deserted while bores speak to empty seats, were tight-packed with peeresses, dazzling in their fashionable plumage. "Backwoodsmen," who had not taken their seats for an age, limped and hobbled up from the counties to plug in hearing aids and listen to the arguments. Around the steps of the throne, there was a tight gaggle of elder sons who share with members of the Privy Council the right to squat there during sessions...
...outward appearances, no ruling house in Europe can boast the solid, sobersided respectability of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence as "the idyl at Soestdijk...