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While this super drastic measure has been germinating, Italian Royalists have grown constantly more suspicious and uneasy, lest the real purpose of concentrating supreme power in the Fascist Grand Council prove to be eventual abolition of the Throne...
Thus spoke Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, last week, in Hungary's great Gothic House of Parliament beside the Danube at Budapest. The Count, an inflexible and secretive dictator, had just been asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King...
...reign. Augustly he arose and stood with the baton upraised (see Cover&). Then in very loud and ringing tones he cried: "Our Heavenly and imperial ancestors in accordance with the Heavenly truths, created an empire based on foundations immutable for all ages, and left behind them a throne destined for all eternity to be occupied by their lineal descendants. By the grace of the spirits of our ancestors this great heritage has devolved on us. We hereby perform the ceremony of enthronement with the sacred symbols...
...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...
...humanly interesting was Professor Breasted's Luxor Expedition discovery of what seems to have been the private apartment of Rameses III. A large hall contained a dais for his throne. Adjoining was his bedroom with private bath. Alongside his was his queen's suite, and three rooms with private baths for his concubines...