Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lured into the parlor pastime of "Confessing Things I Have Missed," H. R. H. the Duchess of York confessed that she has never...
...recalled, however, having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...
Today Thuringia is one of the federated German republics. Nonetheless, Her Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum (where Poet Goethe lies buried near her husband) on the arm of no less a personage than the Chancellor of all Germany, pale, ascetic, thin-lipped Dr. Heinrich Bruning, 47. As Democracy thus squired Autocracy to the tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power...
...Manhattan telephone directory contains nine Romanoffs and two Romanovs, one of these being listed as "Marie Grand Duchess 14 Sutton pl S. ELdorado...
Twenty-three years ago Marie, current best-selling Russian Grand Duchess, had a son. Eighteen years ago she parted with him when her marriage to his father was dissolved by the Swedish State Council and by decree of Tsar Nicholas II. Last week mother and son were reunited.- Landing at Southampton from the Europa, Marie cried happily: "I've come over to hear wedding bells!" In her arms she clasped Gustav Lennart Nicholas Paul Bernadotte, a Swedish Prince who has renounced his royal rights to marry a Swedish commoner, Froken Karin Nissvandt...