0 •' ° t..: ■ -if.yi).'. ° Lunching the other day at «,• qniel f club we, writes the "Saturday lie* '? view," descried ui a corner, ■ oppijsiw an officer in khaki, tbe : King'of'T?or- " tugal. We oould not h-slp surmising what were the thoughts of tlio head of tho House of Braganza, the oldest j royal family in Europe. Probably his Majesty -was thinking of the toughngss of his mutton chop, for are „ amazingly mortal. But there passed through our mind tho reflection that | if his ancestrcss, Catherine of jßra- , j ganza, had not been, as Dryden deq j scribed her, "A. soil ungrateful to-'th<J t.jtiller's care," James 11. had never e I reigned, and we should have escaped e I Dutch William and German Georgj*. 1 j There will be a good many kings' m o j exile after this war. Will they all as-, o j semhlo in an hotel in Venice to see the ? | Carnival, as Candidc met them? Will r I there bo a Venice?
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16152, 5 March 1918, Page 5
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