Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Daily News's Hungarian-born Correspondent M. W. Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop (which has been common knowledge for years). All in all, the peace story was a good yarn, and in Rome and Berlin, as well as in the U. S., press & radio played it for all it was worth...
...Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious...
...times, but his headquarters remained at his house in Paris. There he and the woman he loves continued the life they had led since they moved to France three years ago, building their days around the little problems of whom they might invite for tea and dinner. "The Duchess," observed a Chicago Tribune fashion writer just as all hell broke loose in Flanders, "has compiled a spring wardrobe that is composed of about 20 major ensemble units which, when divided, would make four times that many single garments. . . . It's easy to see that she has been a real...
When the fighting reached the Somme, the Duke took the Duchess to their house on Cap d'Antibes on the Riviera. Paris, explained the Duchess, was too expensive. Besides, her doctor had warned her that air-raid alarms were bad for her health. The Duke & Duchess were there when the Italians entered...
Last week they crossed the Spanish border in a dusty motorcade of servants and attendants, showed up at the Ritz in Barcelona. No, they were not going to America. All the Duke and his Duchess wanted was to get on to Madrid, then Lisbon, then England. The Spanish did not take Edward's military career seriously enough to intern him as a belligerent...