Word: archduchess
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...temporary residence in the U. S.: Elsa Schiaparelli, Parisian couturiere (to lecture and get some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred to spend most of his life in France...
...House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...
...threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left, it was said directly for Mrs. Simpson that she might accept the Archduchess Ileana's invitation, providing Mrs. Simpson's famed Aunt Bessie can accompany her as chaperon. One of the Lord-in-Waiting's last statements on his word of honor was, "Gentlemen, it is really true that Mrs. Simpson does not know where her aunt...
...Warsaw and the kingdom of Westphalia. In 1810 nearly all of continental Europe west of the borders of Austria (and some besides) was Napoleon's or dependent on Napoleon. He made his brother king of Spain, his favorite generel king of Naples. He divorced Josephine and married the Archduchess Maria Louisa, he made his baby son the King of Rome...
...GLORY Is DEPARTED-Alexander Lernet-Holenia-Harper ($2.50). Between drinks a jittery Austrian ex-cavalry officer relates his adventures in the Balkans during the last weeks of the World War, including a love affair with the beautiful protégée of an archduchess, a mutiny drowned in blood, a narrow escape from his own and British troops...