Word: duchess
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Other crowned heads may lie uneasy, but not Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte. Though the smallest country in the U.N. with an area of 999 sq. mi., Luxembourg is the world's tenth largest steel producer. Its 322,000 citizens are the most prosperous in Europe; unemployment rarely exceeds one dozen. Its biggest postwar crisis came when the victorious Allies granted Luxembourg 2 sq. mi. of German territory. Defending its territorial integrity, Luxembourg refused to take the land. Charlotte has ruled her serene, bucolic land for 42 years, making her the world's most durable head...
Last week the Grand Duchess, now 65, took steps to ensure that the goodly inheritance of Luxembourg would go to her first son and rightful heir, Prince Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano de Nassau-Weiburg. Under an obscure 110-year-old article in the Luxembourg constitution, she swore in Prince Jean, 40, as Lieutenant of the Grand Duke. It bestows on him all the powers of the Grand Duchess as head of state, leaving Charlotte only the title-and presumably peace of mind that when she abdicates or dies, the title of Grand...
...characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every moment a madcap one. But most of the time Author Kronenberger-biographer (Marlborough's Duchess), social commentator (Company Manners), novelist (Grand Right and Left), and TIME theater critic for 23 years-keeps the repartee fresh and furiously flying. Moreover, he makes the reader accept his lunatic world on its own farcical terms-no mean achievement in an age in which written wit is closer...
Even the most generous critics agreed that it would have been better for the prestige of British art if Landseer had died young. Yet that was a grace that was denied him. In 1839. when his love of 16 years, the recently widowed Duchess of Bedford, refused to marry him, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and when she died, he went quite balmy. He was at times homicidal (once he nearly killed the duchess' daughter by unceremoniously sitting on her chest as she lay abed with bronchitis). But he lived and painted on and on, dying...
...grumble that women are not ready for such radical changes. In the heady atmosphere of the arch-creator's Olympus, Vivier has no patience with such mundane complaints. Breathlessly awaiting his new-creations are Queens (England's two Elizabeths, Iran's Farah Diba), near queen (the Duchess of Windsor) and movie queens (Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich...