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| | TIME.com: An Exotic Perfume -- Sep. 20, 1948 -- Page 1 |
 | | As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where a regimental commander is said to have told him: "Your Royal Highness had better find himself a throne, for he will never become a hussar." |
 | | Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. |
 | | Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors. |
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