Word: connaught
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...There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...
...first wife, the Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, had died in 1920. Princess Louise of Mountbatten heeded his "rational wooing," married him in 1923, bore him a child which did not live last May, has proved a kindly step-mother to his four sons and his daughter Ingrid...
With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...
...Victoria Station he was met by the King, the Queen, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Mary, Viscount Lascelles and the Duchess of York. Behind them waited Premier Baldwin and most of his Cabinet, the Lord Mayor of London and many another...
...buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned...