For Thais used to King Bhumibol's virtues, which include monogamy, Buddhist piety and old-fashioned thrift, the crown prince is a poor substitute.
He spent 23 years as crown prince before ascending the throne, ten of those as an unofficial regent after his predecessor, King Fahd, suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995.
The four-year-old-first crown prince and then uncrowned pretender-served nine decades longer, with brains and charm.
The crown prince and an entourage of musicians in traditional costume found a virtually empty theater when the screening finally began well after midnight. The festival put on a free public show a week later in amends.
The royal couple wed on April 10, 1959, when Akihito was crown prince.
Another example is Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Since he had earned great merit in battle as a prince, his eldest brother yielded the position of crown prince to him.
The empress dowager gave orders to snuff out the crown prince.
The image on this Mirror Wang Ziqiao playing wind pipe to fascinate phoenix tells us the story of the crown prince of Emperor Xuan of Zhou Dynasty, Wang Ziqiao, playing windpipe to fascinate phoenix.
King of Sweden and Norway (88-844). He served under Napoleon Bonaparte in the Italian campaign (79 '-797) and was elected crown prince in 80, founding the present Swedish royal dynasty.
They were often seen enjoying a romantic dinner at a pizza restarant near the royal palace in Kathmandu. Rana was reported to have initially been reluctant to marry the crown prince, although she later fell in love with him and agreed to the wedding.
Bahrain's crown prince, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, yesterday ordered troops off the streets and offered to begin talks with the protesters.
Masako was living with her foreign ministry boyfriend and rejected out of hand any offers to marry to crown prince.
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