Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King with a Flutter. But the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were gay. After five years of living death in the tranquil Bahamas, the world's most publicized hedonists were fluttery with the anticipation of returning to Paris. Their elegant mansion at 24 boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox...
...trying day for the brand-new Lady Rothermere. Bewitching in the rose straw hat the Duchess of Westminster had brought her from Paris, she gave a party at the Dorchester to hear the election returns - and the news was a Labor sweep. Almost worse was the arrival of Lady Diana Duff Cooper, fresh from Paris, wearing an exact duplicate of the rose straw...
When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
...asked astonished Britons. "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - coming back to England? Really!" Nevertheless, British papers announced last week that the former King Edward VIII and his wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, would soon return to Britain. They have lived in informal exile ever since Edward abdicated his throne (1936) to marry the Baltimore-born "woman I love." Court circles were stiffly unastonished, implying that they had known for weeks of King George VI 's approval of his brother's return. The homecoming was un officially scheduled for August, when the royal family will be rusticating...
...Duchess: Oh bother! Go summon a jury--a prejudiced one, mind...