Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harm's Way. With the coming of World War II, both duke and duchess made an effort to serve in the ranks. In the quiet months of the "phony" war, Wallis was with the French Red Cross and the duke tried to make himself useful at the British Military Mission at Vincennes. Perhaps to get them both out of harm's way, the duke was then made Governor of the Bahamas...
...Duchess of Windsor
...three operations for a detached retina of the eye, the glacial attitude of the royal family at last was softening. Queen Elizabeth graciously let it be known that she would visit her uncle as soon as his condition would permit. And she would not only take note that the duchess existed, but would extend her the royal hand in friendship...
...house on the outskirts of Paris. Visits to Britain became more frequent, and the duke could call on the Queen - always alone. When Elizabeth was a child, the duke was her favorite uncle, and such he remains to both the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret. But for the duchess nothing changed. As before, she saw herself "confronted with a barrier of turned backs, rigid and immovable...
...Date. His latest public act is his latest novel. In 1963, Esquire announced that Mailer had undertaken to write a New Novel against monthly deadlines, the way Dickens used to write. The first installment, published two months after the assassination of President Kennedy, began in brisk damn-said-the-duchess style: "I met Jack Kennedy in November 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date . . . and I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz...