Word: duchess
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DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...awful fear is that if it (a reconciliation) did happen, how long would she be able to stay on the straight and narrow?" Maj. Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York, in his new book. The Galloping Major. He was referring to the prospects of his daughter's reuniting with her estranged husband, Prince Andrew...
...Glyndebourne is changing. Last week, amid fireworks and the blessing of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the company opened a new theater that seats 1,200 -- the original seated 830 -- and that includes about 60 places to be sold at $15. The design is spare, even modest, making no attempt to impose itself on the landscape, and the acoustics are much better than those of the old house. At the opening, the company tried to keep gloating to a minimum. That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since...
Alex Walker is the former co-chair of the Duchess County (New York) Committee Against Racism and the former vice-president of the Northern Duchess County branch of the NAACP...
Having paralyzed the justice system by silencing all of the witnesses, Sharpton, Maddox and Mason subsequently publicized a series of outlandish conspiracy theories, implicating the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, the Mafia and elected officials of Duchess County, NY in the crime. They viciously slandered public officials--including Attorney General Abrams, whom they branded a sexual pervert and compared to Adolf Hitler...