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...occupied France. The end of the war did not bring an end to Elizabeth's challenges. Her husband fell ill in 1947 and five years later died of lung cancer. As the King's widow, she helped her daughter shoulder the burdens attendant upon a queen. The "smiling Duchess" glided with resilient good humor through roughly 10 engagements each month until she was midway into...
...come again.' Then she turned to the Queen and immediately apologized: "Oh how rude of me, darling! It isn't for me to invite anyone to Sandringham.'" The Queen was said to be equally solicitous of her mother, though she rarely seemed to need the attention. The "smiling Duchess" glided with resilient good humor through roughly 10 engagements each month until she was midway into her 80s. She was patron or president of more than 300 organizations. And in recent years, she kept up an amazing public and private schedule for a person her age: she attended a performance...
DIED. PAULINE TRIGERE, 93, outspoken fashion diva whose elegant yet practical designs were worn by Bette Davis, Dina Merrill and the Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. The first major designer to hire an African-American model, Trigere was famously generous--and blunt. At one show, she explained the upside of a low-cut dress by offering, "You can see the boobs better...
...wife Sydney, the Mitfords (Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah and their brother Tom) grew up in "a sort of upper-class poverty" (which entailed, at its worst, six servants). They referred to their eccentric parents as "Farve" (their father had such a formidable temper that he banned the Duchess of Marlborough from his home because she left a paper handkerchief on a hedge) and "Muv" (their slightly dotty mother considered dinner napkins an extravagance). Nancy, the eldest child, would capture both their peculiar family life and the milieu of the "Bright Young Things"--the flippant, modern young aristocrats...
...Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world...