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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor & their clothes went dancing in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, achieved the classiest photograph of their visit so far-he in white tie & tails and a boyish grin, she in a rustly formal with a sort of dorsal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Divorced. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's wealthiest peers and most fabulous playboys, by his third duchess, the former Loelia Ponsonby, 44; after 16 years of marriage (ten of separation); no children; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...confused with the late first Duchess May Etheridge, who was also a Gaiety Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Royalty | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Duke of Windsor got a chat with Prime Minister Clement Atlee in London, but still no job, and it looked as if the U.S. would be getting him and the Duchess again next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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