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Each of these youths is heir to a Throne. Each has been mooned at and photographed ad nauseam. Therefore smart folk hailed with relief, last week, the definitive emergence of a fifth and little known prince: Charles of Flanders. Though he is not a Crown Prince, but the second son of King Albert of the Belgians, he officiated with the grace and freshness of youth, last week, at ceremonies which marked a pilgrimage to Belgium of 15,000 British Legionairies...
Expected. By the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, and his spouse Nancy Anne (nee Miller) of Seattle, a babe. Should it prove male, the he-babe would inherit many a million of golden rupees, but not the Throne of Indore, which is now held by an elder son of the abdicated Potentate...
...Jointly harkened to a Speech from the Throne, proroguing Parliament to Nov. 6. The Speech was sonorously read by Baron Hogg of Hailsham, rotund Lord High Chancellor, because His Majesty, a keen yachtsman, was en route to Cowes for the famed annual Regatta...
...Speech from the Throne, which is actually neither more nor less than a declaration from the Cabinet, contained one trans-Atlantic allusion: "My Government has been happy to accept the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war proposed to them by the Government of the United States. The proposed treaty has similarly been accepted by my Governments in the Dominions and my Government in India. It is my confident expectation that when completed it will constitute a new and important guarantee of the world's peace...
Royalists recalled that a Pretender to the Throne of France and all his sons are automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. None the less the French Republican Government is not an enemy country. King Jean III during the War carried messages and was later allowed to do Red Cross work among "his people." With all to gain and nothing to lose, except his life, he was often in the front line trenches but escaped unscathed...