Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old mistress of vast, gloomy, allegedly haunted Glamis (pronounced Glarms) Castle in Scotland, legendary scene of Macbeth's murder of Duncan, died of heart disease last week in London. She was the hardworking, domestic, society-shunning Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England...
...Countess' death came only six days before the long-awaited, elaborately-arranged State visit of the King & Queen to Paris was scheduled to take place. From France came regrets from President Albert Lebrun, a promptly accepted suggestion that the visit be postponed until July...
...since the Nazi coup, the Countess has had only one quiet amusement-chatting with the former Chancellor while he was "honorably detained" in the Belvedere Palace. One of the things they talked about was getting married. They had been thinking about it for some time, but Chancellor Schuschnigg, a devout Roman Catholic, could not marry a divorced woman. Last December, the Vatican came to their aid by annulling the Countess' previous marriage, without stating grounds. But the Church asked the Chancellor not to marry as long as he was in power. With Anschluss, the Nazis opened up the hymenal...
...been escorted away from Belvedere, he was being held for questioning in Vienna's former Hotel Metropole, now Nazi secret political police headquarters. By special mandate his brother, Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg, former director of the Austrian Federal Broadcasting Co., went in for him at the altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real thing: By this time we should be man and wife. This makes me extremely happy. A thousand kisses. Kurt...
After the ceremony, Countess Schuschnigg told friends that the days of toasts were over. She and her husband, she said, were poor. To save a few marks, she had moved her trunks and household chattels in a taxi to their new, modest, downtown apartment. When she would be joined there by her husband, only the Gestapo knew...