Word: blandford
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...London, newshounds began to bay after 18-year-old Princess Margaret, who got home after midnight four nights last week after partying with the Marquess ("Sonny") of Blandford and other titled young bloods. After she listened to a palmist foretelling romance for Sonny, the Princess refused to have her fortune told, protesting: "Oh no, no. You're much too accurate." The tabloid Sunday Pictorial decided to be sternly parental about the whole thing: "Mothers who find it hard to regulate the hours of their daughters do not like to be told that 'Princess Margaret's parents...
Shopman Douglas, 20, pretty blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was keeping company in London with one of the realm's most eligible nobles: the Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret...
...young lordlings who take her dancing are enthusiastic about her. One appraisal: "She's a hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME...
...twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford, heir of the tenth Duke. At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, the tenth Duke of Maryborough, astonished dinner guests by twice pitching a raspberry high up to the great vaulted ceiling and catching it in his mouth as it fell...
...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...