Word: duchessed
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...gala night at Covent Garden, London. The King was there, so were the Queen with the old Dowager Countess of Minto, the Duke and the Duchess of Beaufort, he who was King Manuel and she who was Queen Augusta of Portugal, Prince Chichibu of Japan and a hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie...
...over. The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
Lusty fishmongers cheered, recalling that the newborn Duchess (TIME, May 3) had her name officially registered as "Elizabeth Alexandra Mary" last week. Despatches announced that at her subsequent state christening she would wear the iace christening robe donned in infancy by George V and Edward of Wales...
...nephew King Christian X of Denmark have employed agents to investigate the possibility that a woman with bullet scars upon her scalp and abdomen, who is being cared for in a Berlin sanitarium under the name "Frau von Tschaikovski" (TIME, Jan. 11), may actually be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, reputedly murdered with her father Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the imperial family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg. (July...
...Dowager Tsarina Dagmar's agents are rumored to have traced the child. The Grand Duchess Anastasia's nurse Sascha, said recently after minutely examining the body of "Frau von Tchaikovski:" "This is the body of Anastasia. I know her body as well as I do my own. Anastasia had a brown mole on her back - her birthmark. That mark is there. Anastasia had flat feet. This girl's feet are flat. They are the same shape as Anastasia...