Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elizabeth, Duchess of York, entered her third week of imminent childbirth at Glamis Castle. Four obstetricians were in attendance. Despatches began to mention that the chief physician, Sir Henry Simson, is "an expert in the Caesarian section." Bulletins from the castle began to assure the Empire that everything was all right. Busloads of curious tourists rumbled round the locked gates of the castle. Scotsmen climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present...
Anastasia Tchaikovsky, protégée of various Eastern socialites who say she is Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was reported about to be deported from the U. S., could nowhere be found. But Assistant Secretary of Labor William Walter Husband announced: "We could not deport her to Russia because we have no diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other country to which we could lawfully send...
Elizabeth, Duchess of York, who was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,* third and youngest daughter of the Earl & Countess of Strathmore and Kingshorne, lay in turreted Glamis castle last week, where according to tradition and Shakespeare, MacBeth did murder Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain...
...anxious Britons, expecting birth news from day to day, the child seemed long in coming. The Duchess of York's own 30th birthday, heralded by soothsayers as the probable moment, dawned uneventfully. Highly embarrassed, perspiring profusely, little John Robert Clynes who began life humbly in a workingman's cottage and is now Home Secretary of His Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible...
...Duchess of York is also known to smoke privately and it will be recalled that when Princess Mary was married presents from her friends included a number of cigaret cases. These were expected to be used...