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...owner had hired geologists to examine his land. They reported: it's worth trying. Last week the owner, who had not visited the ranch in nearly three years, reached the U.S. Said the owner (the Duke of Windsor) to reporters in Miami (see PEOPLE) : he and the Duchess would visit Washington and Manhattan, and just possibly might stop off at his ranch in Alberta...
...engaged to the town's WAC Captain Ruth Briggs (see cut), saw Captain Briggs' mother, Mrs. Franz Rosebush. Said she: "Yes, it's true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted an item from his column of March 20: "Roosevelt intimates still insist the rumors about Elliott's next being Winston Churchill's daughter Mary are unfounded. That he never even met her. The fact is that...
Princess Alexandra, seven-year-old daughter of the widowed Duchess of Kent, was royally shy and reserved with a group of U.S. Army men visiting her and her grandmother, Queen Mary-until Captain Stuart A. Safdi won her over with a package...
...tell her that if she married outside the Church her children would be regarded by the Church as illegitimate. He told her. Lord Hartington declined to marry in the Church, or to agree that future Caven dishes would be Catholic. Kathleen decided to marry anyway. The Duke, the Duchess, the Dowager Duchess and the Marchioness capitulated...
...Cavendishes and the Kennedys kept their counsel. But the day before the wedding Kathleen's mother, ill in a Boston hospital, sent out word that she was "too sick to discuss the marriage." If Lord Hartington succeeds to the title, becomes the 11th Duke of Devon shire, his Duchess will find herself the Mistress of the Royal Robes, first lady In waiting to the Queen. The Queen may well be Princess Elizabeth...