Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest possible cost in wages." Next for Charles & Fern Bedaux a unique pleasure was in store-the abdicated King of England married Mrs. Simpson in their chateau in France (TIME, June 14). Later the honeymooning Duke and Duchess stayed at the Bedaux chateau in Hungary. And this week Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux landed in Manhattan charged to arrange and carry through a tour of the U. S. and possibly Canada by the present King of England's elder brother and His Majesty's eldest sister...
Meanwhile the King & Queen, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke & Duchess of Kent were out in various parts of the United Kingdom taking an interest in housing and public welfare. After several days of such exertions, the Duke of Kent, who was about to inspect the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, broke down and gasped, I'm all in!" His Royal Highness, too exhausted to greet members of the infirmary staff with Her Royal Highness, was limousined away to rest. The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester indomitably inspected royal estates which belonged to the Duke of Windsor...
German intimates of the Realmleader have repeatedly heard him make various versions of the above remark, and last week they were not surprised when Der Führer, having welcomed the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to his Bavarian château, drew royal Edward aside and was seen to engage him for 20 minutes in heated conversation. "The tour of our Fatherland which the Duke and Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow...
...Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor in 1917. Therefore last week European socialites were agog to see what kind of dinner the Duke of Coburg would give in Nürnberg for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg and of German society be invited to meet the Duchess, and would the Head of the House treat her as having the rank of Royal Highness-a rank King George VI has not yet bestowed on his American sister...
...Duke's credit, as he and the Duchess returned to Paris this week before sailing for Manhattan, were 14 dawn-to-dusk days of the most intensive inspection of German industry and housing (TIME. Oct. 18). Three days of much less strenuous royal inspecting in England last week caused the 43-year-old Duke of Windsor's 34-year-old brother the Duke of Kent to quit for a few days' rest with the words...