Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married the Archduchess Marie Dorothé Amélie de Saxe-Coburg Gotha. In 1913 his wife tried to divorce him. During the divorce proceeding wide publicity was given to his many affaires d'amour and he was accused of misusing the Duchess' dowry. The Duke's supporters, however, were successful in 1914 in persuading the Duchess to drop divorce proceedings. It made no difference to the Duke...
...Court of Appeals upheld a verdict awarding $45,000 damages and costs to the Russian Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the ex-Tzar...
...appears that one Albert Frederick Calvert was engaged in a conspiracy in which the Grand Duchess was induced to part with some rare pearls...
Died. Angus Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 24, first cousin of the Duchess of York, suicide, supposedly because of the breaking of his engagement to Miss Freda Parsons, at Ripley, Surrey, England...
General Ivan Kharin, " richest man in Russia," before the war, died of cancer of the throat in a Copenhagen hospital. Uncle by marriage to the Grand Duchess Olga, he was well known in Danish society...