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Resplendent in grey chiffon and diamonds, H.R.H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, a handsome woman at 50, posed in Kensington Palace for a birthday portrait by Britain's most chic photographer, willowy Cecil Beaton. For the occasion, she bedecked herself with a spectacular array of decorations, including the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
...throat; her brilliant eyes burned, a promise to Rémi, a beckoning. He bowed, smiling." Within ten pages they are busily engaged in rumpling the sofa of Rémi's bachelor flat while Jardinier is bound for Amsterdam in his carriage with only a Russian Grand Duchess to tousle...
After having graced most lists of the world's best-dressed women ever since she became a best-dressed duchess (in 1937), the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor abruptly slapped the hands of the arbiters who have long applauded her. Snapped she: "How could such a list be anything but phony, when most of the judges seldom see me or the other people they are voting...
...first nightclub appearance, to which he wore a white sheared-beaver coat over his silver tails, wowed the fashionable set, e.g., the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Earl and Countess Cadogan, Lord Foley, Princess Aly Khan. One girl dared to boo, and was sharply rebuked by the management...
Then the eminent couple talked about the Duke's passion for gadgets, and the Duchess' passion for the Duke ("I want to make my husband happy. That's my greatest desire"). They also talked about globetrotting (the Duke: "I have been everywhere . . . except in jail...