Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were tea & cakes in the Royal Picture Gallery and a performance by the Scottish Children's Theatre-which consists of six coy adults who recite Mother Goose rhymes in costume. No. 1 guest moppet was H. R. H. Prince Edward, two-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and 5th in line of succession to the throne...
Exactly one year after Edward VIII's abdication appeared last week a new edition of Burke's Peerage, ranking the Duchess of Windsor in England as the 33rd Lady in the Land, ranking the Duke 4th (i.e., after his three brothers). It was next discovered last week that the new Debrett's Peerage, an equally standard work, ranks the Duchess as 8th Lady. Consulted about this discrepancy, the Royal College of Arms this week inclined to agree with Debrett's, but weaseled by declaring "only the King is able to state the exact position...
...this Their Majesties, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, laughed hugely, also at Mr. Miller's joke about the tramp who said "Lady, I haven't eaten for three days," and her reply, "Well, my good man, this can't go on-you'll simply have to force yourself...
While she was being quietly ousted last week, two younger, more tractable career women received rich promotions. The wife of Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova...
Married. Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 40, onetime husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to Mary Kirk Raff ray, 41, childhood friend of his onetime wife; by special permission after a judge waived Connecticut's five-day notice and blood test laws; in Fairfield. Mrs. Raffray, who introduced Ship-Broker Simpson and Wallis Warfield (then Mrs. Earl W. Spencer) in 1925, was divorced three weeks ago from Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, Manhattan insurance broker...