Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Duchess* of York, busying herself less royally, set about to direct a score of thick-sinewed titans who swarmed into White Lodge, the pleasant ducal residence at Richmond Park. Under her watchful eye the defter titans packed costly gold and silver plate, shifted it into panting moving vans already piled with trunks and boxes and chugged away...
...Ducal Palace in Venice, one of the most famous buildings in that city, is to become the property of the municipality following a decision of the Cabinet. At present the building is the property of the Italian Government and the decision to cede it to Venice was made "in keeping with the ancient Character of the building and its place in the history of the Republic* and Venice...
Zita herself is of Italian blood, being a member of the Ducal House of Tuscany. The Florentine diamond, manuscripts from the Modena Library, and other objects were transported from Tuscany to Vienna in the 18th Century. It is on this ground that the Italian Government claims them...