Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danced with a divorced American woman, Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, and lost his heart. Only 326 days after he ascended the throne, Edward VIII gave it up for "the woman I love," married her and remanded himself and his bride to exiled history as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...Club Bungalow. This week the duke and duchess attend the royal premiere in the U.S. of A King's Story, a documentary film of Edward's life culminating in the abdication crisis that shook an empire. It is a sentimental film, but it could hardly be otherwise, dealing as it does with the most romantic gesture of the 20th century. Next week the duke and his duchess will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their marriage, by every evidence still as devoted to each other as on the June day when they were wed in a friend...
...Paris briefly, then down to a rented villa on the Riviera or, of recent years, to a bungalow at Marbella on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Autumn used to be reserved for hunting weekends, but since an eye operation in 1965, the duke no longer shoots. The duke and duchess give and go to small dinner parties with such friends as the Eugene de Rothschilds, sometimes attend the theater or ballet on gala occasions. Each December they slip into London, where they stay at Claridge's, for Christmas shopping, returning to Paris for the Christmas party of their household...
...accustomed from birth. On the subject of service, the duke likes to quote his father's maxim that getting things done on a royal standard requires a man and a half for every job. For the Windsors' movable household, that means some 20 people, from the duchess' secretary down to an electrician-mechanic. "I call the duchess the cruise director," the duke explained last week to TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. "She runs everything. The house is the ship." The duke's role on their perpetual cruise ship? "He's the content traveler," said the duchess...
...couple's 30th wedding anniversary, a much delayed invitation arrived from Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II would be pleased if the Duke and Duchess of Windsor could come to England from the U.S. to attend the dedication next month in Marlborough House of a memorial plaque to the Duke's mother, the late Queen Mary. It was, said the palace, strictly a family affair. Nevertheless, it marked the first time since his abdication and marriage that the British crown has taken formal recognition of the former King's twice-divorced American wife-though the Duchess...