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...Brussels knew that a baby daughter* had been born to Crown Princess Astrid, wife of Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, to whom she was married last year (TIME, Nov. 15). Had 101 booms startled the city, it would have signified the birth of an heir presumptive to the throne of the Belgians...
Just Fancy. Again the fable of a prince who loved madly but, for his country's sake, not morganatically. Perhaps it was not considered courteous to the current genial heir to Britain's throne to make him into a musical comedy. Accordingly the flashback method was dragged out, dusted off, and from a modern prolog the story shifted to a tale of Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories...
...throne room of the Vatican, Mr. Levine, well rehearsed, kissed the Pope's ring. He listened mutely while His Holiness carried on a polite monolog, later confided: "I was so flabbergasted, I couldn't say a thing." It was the first time a U. S. citizen had ever been received in the throne room. At the close of the interview, the Pope blessed Mr. Levine, his family, his future flights...
...favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead sister and is a fine, dashing young officer. If he should then be declared heir to the throne, King Alfonso's daughter Beatriz would eventually become Queen of Spain. You make a mistake in thinking that King Alfonso is a puppet in Primo de Rivera's hands. Far from that, it is Alfonso who tells Primo what to do and who uses Primo as his puppet. King...
Twice in 1921 the late onetime Emperor Karl (King Karl IV of Hungary) attempted to regain his Hungarian throne; each time he was thwarted: the Little Entente powers, by threatening armed intervention, forced Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...