Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance of Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring was attended, last week, by T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York. Hitherto no one of the King's sons has entered a theatre since the critical stage of his illness. Princess Mary has been to a benefit circus, laughed...
...part of the Grand Duke in the Russian Skating Carnival which will take place in the Boston Arena at 8.15 o'clock Wednesday, evening, it was learned yesterday. Clark will not make his debut on skates but will appear in a sleigh with Mrs. Gaspar G. Racon, the Grand Duchess. This vehicle will be drawn into a model village square on the B. A. A. rink by Pansy, the Skating Pony, who has been imported from the snowy steppes of Russia for the occasion...
...many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself "Citizen Cyril Romanov"; 4) that in any case Nicholas II detested the Grand Duke Cyril and suspended all his honors, for some years, after he married a divorcee Grand Duchess, contrary to the wishes and strict code of Nicholas the Last...
Baroness Buxhoeveden was one of the few faithfuls who followed the royal family into their dreary Siberian exile, herself narrowly escaping their gruesome fate. She was constant companion to the grand duchess, but has not recognized the authenticity of the young woman who last year claimed to be Anastasia, escaped...
...time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency to stay with sympathy the progress of disease...