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Died. The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon, 44, brother of the Duchess of York, at Glamis Castle in Scotland...
...famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire again, dispensing with the gypsy accoutrements, reinsulting the emperor, falling in love with the afore-mentioned jilted arch-duchess, winning her, and finally, to cap an excellent picture, restoring...
...Royal Highness the Duchess of York, only daughter-in-law of Their Majesties, was last week announced to be for the second time with child...
First child of the bonny, blooming "Little Duchess" is Princess Elizabeth of York who recently was three (TIME, April 29) Famed as "Baby Betty" before she could talk, she now asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...
...boast that he has been almost continuously at sea since the age of 15. He has served in the East and West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though it has no connection with last week's marine horseplay, he is a Companion of the Bath...