Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he had stopped on stones of the same unevenness, and of his early years. In contrast to these reminiscences are the facts of the present. Mme. Verdurin has become the Princess de Guermantes, Gilberte is fat and has a daughter grown up, Bloch is in society, and the Duchess de Guermantes is completely...
...Duchess and Casilda are rather dull at best, but the Duchess at the Hollis hardly possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
...flower?" he adroitly replied. "Flowers of all kind appeal to me." Their daughter, Princess Mary (now the Princess Royal) is known to be devoted to her husband, the spindle-shanked Earl of Harewood. despite a local conviction that he drinks to excess. Most satisfactory of course are the Duke & Duchess of York, except that their two children are girls, Princess ("Baby Betty") Elizabeth and Princess Mary Rose...
...assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; brother of Marie, best-selling Grand Duchess (The Education of a Princess and A Princess in Exile...
...PRINCESS IN EXILE ? Grand Duchess Marie ? Viking ($3.50). More royal vicissitudes of a princess who became a bestseller...