Word: duchess
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...Duchess of Windsor, the thrice-married lady for whose love Edward VIII abdicated, is not Her Royal Highness. She is merely the 29th and lowest Duchess in the realm, a fact which annoys the Duke. It seems to him that the royal family's- particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said...
...Producer Pascal acquired possession of the world's richest mine of entertainment material would be as good a story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
Because the Duchess of Atholl spoke out against the Peace of Munich, the Kinross and West Perth Unionist Association (a Conservative Party political club) refused to renominate her for the House of Commons, where she has served 13 years. Thereupon the Duke, who was president of the club, resigned, declared his wife would stand her next election as an independent, snapped: "And she's bound to be elected...
Chagrined members of the Paris post of the British Legion were told by their officials that it would be "impossible" to invite the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to their annual dinner next week. British Legionnaires were further irked when the Duke & Duchess accepted an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner from the American Legion...
...London court circles said that the King had refused to receive the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband since last Christmas has pleaded with his family by letter and telephone to welcome his wife to England. The Duke of Windsor is expected by his family to break his two-year exile and revisit England early in the new year, alone...