Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Ludwig, 29, youngest son of the late Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Dowager Duchess Eleanore, impatiently paced the roof at London's Croydon Aerodrome waiting for the arrival of his family from Germany. Grand Duke George, 31, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; his 26-year-old wife, the former Princess Cecile of Greece & Denmark and cousin of England's Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy...
...Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...
George VI as a young man witnessed the triumphant re-entry into Brussels- after it had been evacuated by the Germans-of Belgium's King Albert and Crown Prince Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York...
...Paris last week, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor began to weaken about their U. S. tour after their first telephone conversation with Charles Bedaux. Next day, they decided to go ahead with it anyway. Day before the Bremen - chosen for the voyage because, unlike American and French liners, she does not call at ports in England - was to sail, the Windsors lunched at the British Embassy, went back to the Hotel Meurice to finish packing their 20 trunks and 50 suitcases. Late that afternoon, the Windsor Housing Tour of the U. S. reached its final anticlimax. This...
...extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo...