Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century over its revels, liked to think it was "not an 'otel but an 'ome away from 'ome for my friends." To addicts, "Rosa's'' was not so much home as a Mad Hatter's champagne party. They called Rosa the Duchess of Jermyn Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair hotel remained for decades one of the last places in all England where, as Evelyn...
...hotel, run since the Duchess' death by her old and Rosaesque friend, Edith Jeffrey, never fully recovered from World War II, when a German bomb wrecked the front of the four-story building. Rosa, who refused to take shelter, was pulled out of the wreckage, but her precious stocks of champagne were gravely depleted. "Don't ever die," the Duchess of Jermyn Street told a friend when she recovered. "I've just been right up to the gates of heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never...
Restless drifters between the gilded mansions of Palm Beach and the palm-fringed villas of the French Riviera for a quarter of a century, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arranged to spend their silver wedding anniversary with what the New York Times termed "symbolic appropriateness''-at sea. After a farewell whirl of champagne-and-caviar parties tossed by Manhattan's ever-doting socialites, Edward, 67, and Wallis, 65, boarded the liner United States for a trip to Europe and a quiet, high-seas celebration in perfect counterpoint to the carnival atmosphere surrounding their 1937 wedding...
...Cafritz has not done much better. Last fall, at her annual Supreme Court party, not a single justice snowed up. More recently, she did manage to snare Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges for an evening "just in the middle of that steel crisis." But her party honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was a real bomb; the Maxwell Taylors and Ormsby-Gores were there, but the affair was mostly populated by people like the ambassador from Iceland. So bad have things got that the old rivals, Perle and Gwen, now attend one another's parties...
...ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...