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Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
George II, King of the Hellenes, was back in Greece last week to ascend for the third time his country's throne.* Although he is a third-generation Greek king by birth, the King (full name: George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glücksburg) still speaks Greek with a heavy foreign accent...
...seemed to bear out the rumors: King George II of Greece has an English mistress and he insists on taking her home to Athens with him. He has insisted that he will not go without her, and some of his friends think that he would rather give up his throne than leave her permanently...
Exercise In Genealogy. The "wonder worker Jesus," he has discovered after patient inquiry, was actually the rightful heir to the throne of Israel. He was, in short, the legitimate but unacknowledged son of Prince Antipater, grandson of Herod the Great. This secret, known to few people during Jesus' life, became known to Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor General of Judaea. That was why Pilate granted Jesus a private interview and that, of course, accounted for the inscription Pilate wrote for the cross: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews...
Also up to the Russians were the future fortunes of the only reigning king left behind the iron curtain. In Rumania, where in pre-election arguments Communists recently scored political points by beating up leading liberals, King Mihai I still perched on his throne. Last week the Russians were still giving him cigaret money, sometimes even gave him a light...