SPAIN: Royal Week

Their Most Catholic Majesties continued merrily last week their informal visit to London, (TIME, July 12) took no part in the local Court mummery. (See COMMONWEALTH, "Royal Week")

Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers won: 5—4.

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