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unusual facts about Monarchism


Keshar Jung Rayamajhi

He was a leading figure in the communist movement in the country, but later turned into a royalist.


Common Man's Front

The Common Man's Front (in Italian: Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque, UQ) was a short-lived right-wing populist, monarchist and anti-communist political party in Italy.

Eugenio Vegas Latapie

A founder member of Acción Española, Vegas Latapié was noted for his extreme monarchism to the point that he lost faith variously in Alfonso XIII, his son Juan and grandson Juan Carlos, to whom he was a tutor, as he felt that they were not monarchist enough.

Lima Barreto

His father was a typographer and a monarchist who had close connections to Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto, who would later become Lima Barreto's godfather.

Russian All-Military Union

Many (but not all) of its members had monarchist sympathies of varying flavors: constitutional vs. autocratic, Romanov vs. non-Romanov oriented.

Scott-King's Modern Europe

On arrival at a Mediterranean seaport, he finds himself surrounded by anarchists, monarchists, Trotskyites, prostitutes, ballet dancers, former Gestapo officers and Vichy collaborators.

The Royal Game

Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-King and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of the Nazi regime.

Werl

Franz von Papen: German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1934, and who helped him come to power, was born in Werl on 29 October 1879.

Zhou Ziqi

Zhou may have invited Columbia University political scientist Frank Johnson Goodnow to justify monarchism for China.


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