SPAIN: Queen of Sorrows

After decades of crocodile groans by celebrities arriving in Manhattan harbor about how impossible it is to avoid "unwelcome American publicity and the terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in...

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