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...palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...
DIED. Anna Anderson Manahan, 82, who spent 62 years trying to prove that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and only survivor of the 1918 execution of the Russian imperial family at Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk); of pneumonia; in Charlottesville, Va. Contending that she survived the slaughter by hiding behind one of her dead sisters, "Anastasia" was rejected as an impostor by Romanov relatives. She married Historian John E. Manahan in 1968. Her life became the subject of many books and was the basis of the movie Anastasia...
Those letters were never intended for publication: they are sprightly, candid and occasionally risque. In one letter, she describes the consequences of a liaison between the King and a 17-year-old girl: "Mme. de Fontanges has been made a Duchess with a 20,000 ecus a year pension; she accepted congratulations yesterday, lying...
...There is a sweet reserve to her playing, and a sense that despite her temporary befuddlements, her Anne is on the way to becoming a woman of genuine, and entrancing, character. Having her conduct her relationship with Edward while they are involved in a drama club production of The Duchess of Malfi puts them in logical touch with a group of eccentrically orbiting minor characters and imparts a resonance, narrative richness and a range of human interest extraordinary to find in a film by young people...
...royals travel in packs: the Queen's entourage numbers about 40, including the Duchess of Grafton, who is the senior lady in waiting; two other ladies in waiting who write polite thank-you notes, answer the telephone and pay for anything Her Majesty might fancy (the Queen never carries money -too unseemly); her private secretary, Sir Philip Moore, who supervises the handling of the Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with...