Word: countesses
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Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was a hood with class. His home outside Beverly Hills was a tourist showpiece. He dined with Barbara Hutton, went yachting with Countess Dorothy di Frasso...
...Married. Countess Victoria Calvi di Bergolo, 19, tall, brunette niece of ex-King Umberto of Italy; and 28-year-old Count Guglielmo Guarienti di Brezone, member of an old Verona family; in Alexandria, Egypt. The ceremony, brightened by royal relatives-including Umberto and the bride's grandfather, ex-King Victor Emmanuel-was somewhat marred by an unfulfilled threat (presumably by a few local Italian republicans) to bomb the church...
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...