Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke's private motor car, bearing his emblem and crest, was seized and driven through the streets, while the unsuspecting populace cheered two students dressed as the Duke and Duchess of York, then froze with horror as the "Royal Pair" thumbed their noses...
Just one word. You have told, your readers how the Duchess of York, after leaving her one-year-old baby in London, has been dancing the Charleston until even rough sailors on the Renown have picked up from her a dance worse than any they knew before...
...tell also from whom the Duchess learned to Charleston? Don't you know? It happens that I have friends close enough to the Court of St. James's to be able to "guess." I can assure you that the well known intimacy of the Duchess of York and the Prince of Wales is "guessed" to have found fulsome expression in Charleston lessons. May I add that all who knew the Duchess as a girl knew someone very different from the woman she has become...
...tiptoe, then, Sir James Matthew Barrie came to the crib in which lay Princess Elizabeth (just one year old on April 21), daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. Perhaps the baby, with feminine intuition, realized how near she was to Peter Pan. Despatches told that she stirred in her sleep, wakened for an instant and looked sleepy-eyed at the smiling man in thin-rimmed glasses, white stiff collar, and impeccable frock coat who stood, still atiptoe, beside her crib. Then, with a small pink yawn, Her Royal Highness dismissed Sir James...
...incident pinked British sentimentalism near the heart. Next day London newspapers were ecstatic. Royalty and Sir James were served up in a golden haze of Peter Pantheism. Then a despatch arrived from Sydney, Australia, where Baby Betty's mother, the Duchess of York, was sojourning with the Duke after arriving from England on H. M. S. Renown. The despatch told, briefly that on the outward voyage the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting disported themselves nightly with the Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars...