Long-jawed Alfonso XIII, as the Duke of Toledo, was in London last week to the slight embarrassment of the Labor Government. As in Paris, crowds cheered his every appearance.
Officially Alfonso and his faithful confidant the Duke of Miranda were in London to arrange for the entrance of Alfonso's third son, Prince Juan, in Britain's Annapolis: the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. Correspondents suspected that they were actually there to sound out British officialdom on the likelihood of the Spanish Royal family being able to...
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