Word: duchess
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...patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg, in a united Prussian Germany about to go down to defeat...
Died. (Michael) Maximilian, 58, Manhattan furrier who built up a $3,500,000-a-year business designing high-styled, high-priced mink and sable coats for women of wealth and fashion (Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Doris Duke, et al.); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Edwin Goodman, 76, chairman and co-founder of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman (women's specialty shop), where he personally attended to the wants of the world's rich and royal (e.g., Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. John Jacob Astor); in Manhattan...
...well judge the telecast one of the wisest acts." To the millions who viewed the coronation on TV sets in Britain were added other millions of viewers in Germany, Holland, France and Belgium. Among the viewers: Chancellor Adenauer in Germany, Queen Juliana in The Netherlands, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris. Said the duchess: "A very moving ceremony...
...tropical blow each season will be called Alice. Then will come Barbara, Carol, Dolly, etc. The average number of hurricanes (seven) will run through the alphabetical list as far as Gail. Only an unprecedented number (the record was 21 in 1933) will include a hurricane named Wallis (after the Duchess of Windsor...