Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany last week was tall, well-built, 21-year-old Grand Duke Vladimir, who two months ago inherited through the death of his father, Grand Duke Cyril, the title of pretender to the extinct Russian throne. Ostensibly "Tsar" Vladimir was going to Germany to visit his sister, the Grand Duchess Kira, wife of former Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, remembered in the U. S. chiefly as a onetime Ford automobile factory worker. Actually, bigger things than a mere family reunion were...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
...fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...connected with my service in the Federal Government, I do not wish to break them up, leaving a portion of them to the National Archives and dividing the rest between the State of New York Archives, the New York State Historical Society, the Harvard College Library, the Duchess County Historical Society...
Magda Lupescu, henna-haired mistress of King Carol of Rumania, always says, "The interests of Rumania weigh . . . more than any other consideration." Suiting the action to the word, she last week journeyed to Paris, put up at the Hotel Meurice (where the Duke & Duchess of Windsor were also resident) in order to be on hand for the state visit of Carol before he went on to Berlin to discuss trade relations with Field Marshal Goring...