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Even the most generous critics agreed that it would have been better for the prestige of British art if Landseer had died young. Yet that was a grace that was denied him. In 1839. when his love of 16 years, the recently widowed Duchess of Bedford, refused to marry him, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and when she died, he went quite balmy. He was at times homicidal (once he nearly killed the duchess' daughter by unceremoniously sitting on her chest as she lay abed with bronchitis). But he lived and painted on and on, dying...
...grumble that women are not ready for such radical changes. In the heady atmosphere of the arch-creator's Olympus, Vivier has no patience with such mundane complaints. Breathlessly awaiting his new-creations are Queens (England's two Elizabeths, Iran's Farah Diba), near queen (the Duchess of Windsor) and movie queens (Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich...
Born. To Henri, Count of Clermont, 27, pipe-smoking son of the Count of Paris, who is pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg: their second child, first son and third in line in a succession reaching back to 888, when Eudes became King of France; in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Name: Francois Henri Louis Marie de France...
Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
...congratulated. Chairs were toppled. Champagne glasses were broken. People were knocked down." Breathlessly cabled another U.S. reporter to her office: "Just dashed out of Dior to share with you still-boiling excitement." Wrote the New York Daily News's Monique: "Thundering applause led by a newly blonde Duchess of Windsor rolled through the elegant grey-and-white salons of the House of Dior today, the happy ending to the suspense story of the fashion year...