Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Industries Fair last week: News cameramen have just snapped the Queen Mother, King & Queen, Duke & Duchess of Kent and are turning away as the Princess Royal arrives...
...becomes an international front-page sensation for several days as the Brooklynites trip over each other in contradictory stories about "how we met the whole gosh-darned Royal Family all at once-not even Mrs. Simpson ever did that!" They agree that Queen Elizabeth asks practical questions, that the Duchess of Kent is a raving beauty, that King George finally turns from them to ask his Royal Family: "How about having lunch...
Meanwhile in Birmingham, the separate Heavy Industry Section of the British Fair is inspected without incident by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester...
Engaged. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, Papal Duchess, widow of Manhattan Utilitarian Nicholas Brady; and William J. Babington Macaulay. 44, Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican...
Franzi and Sisi's affair began like a fairy tale. Franz Joseph had been Austria's Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone...