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...home is Bowhill in Selkirk, between which and Boughton House, the Northamptonshire residence of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, her parents, she is often seen driving...
...Bowhill there is accommodation for a dozen cars, but only four of them are permanently there, one of them a beautifully appointed Rolls-Royce. When the King and Queen invited Lady Alice to Balmoral, after the announcement of her engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...
...future Duchess of Gloucester is a very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...recent trip abroad wily old Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris ascertained that British King George frowns upon the project of some Greek Royalists to seat the Duke of Kent upon their vacant throne (TIME, Aug. 19); that despite the feelings of his Greece-born, Greece-loving Duchess, the Duke personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier...
...Walsh received his award from the Werthiem endowment of $100,000 which was established in 1923. The Lowery fellowship was founded in 1910 by the Duke and Duchess of Arcos in memory of the brother of the Duchess...