Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the Juju. The latest version of the copper bracelet fad began in Britain during the early '60s and quickly spread to the Continent. In both London and Paris, the green-stained wrist has become a mark of distinction. Among the wearers are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Snowdon, the Marquess of Bath (who thoughtfully sells the bracelets to sightseers at a souvenir stand outside his castle), Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects...
Hardly had the Williamson fete's bitter-enders left (at half past midnight) than Lucy Alexander Winchester, the petite and pretty White House social secretary, began fretting about the early-April state dinner for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Nor is that the only social sail on the horizon. Lucy seldom has the luxury of juggling only one dinner's china at a time; before the duke and duchess come a group of African ambassadors...
After 37 years of litigation, West Germany's Supreme Court upheld a 1967 decision rejecting the claim of Anna Anderson Manahan that she is in fact the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter and only surviving child of murdered Czar Nicholas II. Anna, who married former History Lecturer John Manahan in late 1968, refuses to accept the ruling, which also affects her bid for the rumored Romanov fortune reputedly banked by Nicholas in Europe. Said...