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...DIED. PRINCESS ALICE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; in London. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, she married Prince Henry, brother of the Queen?s father King George VI, in 1935. Though her husband died in 1974, she kept up a busy schedule of official royal duties and charitable work into...
...firm also rocked sales records with the Hope diamond and the Star of the East. Although divas like the Duchess of Windsor and Renee Zellweger have coveted such Cartier classics as the Panther pin and the Trinity ring, few can top the 69.42-carat diamond that Richard Burton bought for his bride Elizabeth Taylor. --By James Scully
...Stole The Prince” is great—and he demonstrates a keen grasp of physical comedy. Luiz, in a quintessentially G&S role, gets many a laugh, and acts alongside the dynamically voiced Andrea Coleman, who turns in a hilarious performance as the Duchess. In a lesser role, Riley turns in a solid job; his duet with Luiz, “There Was a Time”, is quite poignant...
...incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess" ... Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia they were obliged to accept and bring home ... no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone or address the Girl...
...Wordsworth, and Coleridge, among others. The eclipse of their anti-slavery writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite. And they touch on themes - interracial romance, sexual violence...