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Born. To the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, Duchess of Norfolk, 22, England's youngest duchess, and Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard. Duke of Norfolk, 30. England's Premier Duke and Earl; their first child, a daughter; in London...
...bands, last week reverberated to one of Britain's best bands, Bert Ambrose's Prince's Restaurant Orchestra. King George & Queen Elizabeth were entertaining some 1,000 "personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout was Ambassador Kennedy, who stuck to his long trousers...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated their first wedding anniversary quietly at a Riviera hotel, near the Chateau de la Croe, which they have leased for three years and in which they are now making extensive alterations. The Duke gave the Duchess a bouquet of three orchids- all that could be found in a strict search of the neighborhood. Then they went on a picnic...
...Park, N. Y. for the weekend went Squire Franklin Roosevelt. There he viewed 42 new acres he had bought, off Cream Street on the edge of town, since his last trip home. That evening he was host to royalty: Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern and his bride, the former Grand Duchess Kyra Romanoff. When he took them to church on Sunday morning, he was tickled by a parable read by the Rev. Frank R. Wilson. It was an essay by a school girl on Manhattan's East Side. Its subject: "True greatness." Its text...
Married. Grand Duchess Kyra Kirillovna of the Romanoffs, 29, younger daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; and Prince Louis Ferdinand of the Hohenzollerns, 30, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; in Potsdam, Germany...