Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke of Windsor that his wife was not entitled to be addressed as Her Royal Highness. In accordance with King George VTs decision, the former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, after her marriage to the man who had been King Edward VIM, had to be content with being a mere duchess. Now Patrick Montague-Smith, editor of Debrett's, the authoritative guide to the British aristocracy, says it was all a mistake. The rules of British heraldry permit a wife to take her title from her husband, and since Edward remained a Royal Highness after his abdication, the duchess should...
...Queen, perhaps the most significant event was one with purely personal implications. After a triumphal tour through the south of France, Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, paid a call on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at their house in the Bois de Boulogne. It was the first time that Elizabeth, 46, had visited their home since her uncle abdicated in 1936. It may well be the last: the former King Edward VIII, now 77, is gravely...
...Anastasia is an admirably ambitious but ultimately unconvincing full-length ballet about Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter Lynn Seymour who, by some accounts, escaped execution at the hands of the Bolsheviks and as Anna Anderson spent years unsuccessfully trying to prove that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The first two acts, using music by Tchaikovsky, pro vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction...
...really a Rothschild who had been kidnaped by gypsies didn't quite come true, but as a columnist for the Paris Herald Tribune, "I lived it up with the international set, sailed on Onassis' yacht, played roulette with King Farouk and danced until dawn with the Duchess of Windsor." And at the end of his speech, he did get that standing ovation...
...store's business still permitted Goodman and his Spanish-born wife Nena to lavishly entertain special customers, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Barbra Streisand, in their 14-room penthouse atop the store. But recently profits have sagged; in 1970 Bergdorf earned well under 4% on sales of $32 million. Convinced that only a bigger company could borrow enough capital to expand the business beyond New York's midtown area, Goodman began searching for somebody to buy him out. Unless a buyer could be found, he said sadly, the store would probably close, and its valuable...