Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...give an added regal polish, there were lessons in French (from a French countess), German, art, and dancing. As time went on, the Vice-Provost of Eton, erudite Clarence Henry Kennett ("Shee-Kay") Marten (later knighted and promoted to Provost), was called in to brush up the Princess' constitutional history...
Every August there was a visit to her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, where Elizabeth and Margaret could romp in the ancient corridors of Macbeth's Castle Glamis. There were English Christmases at Sandringham, where the whole family gathered to sing carols, play charades, Dumb Crambo, Animal Grab and Consequences, and dance the Sir Roger de Coverley. And always & everywhere there were friendly relatives, dogs and horses...
...social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise and confidence...
...will be back," said one friend confidently, as they carted the countess off. "She is one of the most sensitively artistic persons I've ever met, incapable of hurting a fly." But Marga's florist shook her head. "A strange customer, that one," she said. "Always asked for flowers past the bloom...