Word: buccleuch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the Royal Dukes and Duchesses, the Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and the Earl and Countess of Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman...
...this was on Sept. 15 and in Lancaster. Not until Sept. 29 did two ladies stopping at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel, Moffat, Scotland, notice, on strolling near The Devil's Beef Tub, chunks which they as ladies had no stomach to examine. In a decorous way they intimated on returning from their stroll to the Buccleuch Arms that things were not as they should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland...
...bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride's late father loaned by her brother Walter, the new Duke of Buccleuch. As they settled down with the headline, "HER GRACE ARISES EARLY TO RUN GLOUCESTER'S HOUSE," the Court of Appeals went on with Lady Alice's wedding gown "made of a new ivory-pink material called crepe alalice produced by British weavers and dyed by British dyers...
...future Duchess of Gloucester is a very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...enthusiasm of the Duke of Gloucester for motoring is largely due to the Buccleuch family. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lord George Scott have been for years close personal friends of his, and now, instead of traveling by train, the Duke nearly always visits his fiancée's family by car. The Duke's favorite at the moment is a Sunbeam, and Lady Alice now knows as much about the car as the Duke himself. She has driven it often with the Duke sitting beside her, and Border rumor has it that he actually proposed...