Word: duchessed
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...Duchess of York, weekending with the Earl & Countess of Pembroke, reacted with hard gaiety on Sunday to a cautious question by a titled guest as to whether the King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
...withheld. To this United Press report, the Associated Press added that suggestions of abdication by His Majesty to marry Mrs. Simpson were welcomed by some of Their Lordships with the comment, "Then let him abdicate, by all means, and let's get on with the Duke and Duchess of York"-i.e., as King & Queen...
...Duchess of York was the daughter of a peer and as such enjoyed before her marriage the courtesy title Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. She was none the less technically a commoner. Upon her marriage she assumed the rank and style of her husband, namely she is a princess of the United Kingdom with the style Royal Highness...
...After her marriage to His Britannic Majesty she will also take one of his ducal titles, becoming the Duchess of Lancaster or the Duchess of Cornwall, probably the former...
...Morgan was picked by Reynolds Illustrated News of London fortnight ago as likely to intervene with U. S. editors at the personal request of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Nov. 2). Up to this week Banker Morgan remained scrupulously neutral. The editor of the New York Woman was, however, called on the carpet by Sister Anne Morgan and obliged to remove Miss Morgan's name from his magazine's Editorial Advisory Board because she objected to its having described the relations of the King and Mrs. Simpson in terms of infatuation...