Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME dated June 16, 1947, you referred to our client, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster as "recently divorced," thereby conveying the imputation that the Duchess, who had in fact been the petitioner in proceedings earlier in the year in which she was granted a decree of divorce against the Duke, had herself been the guilty party in the suit...
This, as you are no doubt aware, is not the case, and needless to say the implication has caused the Duchess considerable embarrassment...
...TIME pleads guilty to the U.S. custom of applying the word divorced to both parties, regrets that its U.S. usage was misunderstood in England, assures the Duchess of Westminster that it had no intention of accusing her of having been the guilty party...
...still clearing up blitz damage. Until Clarence House and Windlesham Moor, their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants, to dine quietly with the Duchess of Kent. For a dancing partner Elizabeth's maid, Margaret MacDonald, had to make do with King George...
Louella Parsons "was dashing into the revolving door at the Waldorf and [the Duke & Duchess of Windsor] were dashing out with three dogs following them, laughing and apparently in high spirits...