Word: duchess
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...Lizzie." Two days after their splendrous marriage at Westminster Abbey in 1923 the Duchess of York, still technically a "commoner" was made a Royal Princess with the rank of H.R.H. by approving George V. She asked her friends to keep on calling her "Lizzie...
...Yorks were touring British Africa in royal style (he shot a white rhinoceros, she refused to shoot another "because they are so rare"); Polish monarchists offered to start a movement to make him King of Poland (he declined with thanks); the Duke came down with influenza; and the Duchess was delivered of her first child, Princess Elizabeth, on April...
...with a Speech from the Throne, for him a terrible ordeal. "Well, here goes," York was heard to say to his wife as, gritting his teeth, he arose to speak. "I know you can do it," she replied firmly and Australians were struck by the way in which the Duchess followed every word, nodding and smiling encouragement right through to the Duke's successful close which brought a torrent of cheers...
...years which followed Britain began to see in the devoted domesticity of the Yorks what finally was found so glaringly lacking in Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...
They were obviously happy to be back. "These are newsreel men," the Duke told the grinning Duchess. "Sometimes they make us look awful...