"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
The Royalist Party of America polled its members as to the European noble they'd most like to invite to serve as American monarch. Their choice: the fetching Princess Madeleine of Sweden. (Via El Camino Real)
A previous European royal imported to the Americas, Emperor Maximilian, seen here in a portrait by the Matthew Brady studio, came to a tragic end.
If it's ever on the cable movie channel, do watch Juarez, Warner Bros.' 1939 saga of the doomed monarchs of Mexico. True, Paul Muni in the title role is positively embalmed, but the real star is Bette Davis as the imperial consort who goes mad with panache.
Meantime, the movement for a constitutional monarchy in Iraq has a web page.
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