Word: duchessed
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...aristocracy in general rallied to plebeian tasks, as in Wartime. The Duchess of Westminster, onetime actress, drove a truck from which she sold newspapers. The Viscountess Massareene piloted a vegetable lorry. The Duchess of Sutherland, Baroness Rollo, et al, similarly busied themselves...
Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three women in England outrank her in official precedence: Queen Mary, Princess Mary and the Duchess of York, her mother...
When the two royal grandaunts, Queen Maud of Norway and Louise, Princess Royal, both sisters of the King, rode out to see the newborn unchristened Duchess, ill luck attended them. Their motor car collided with a taxi near Knightsbridge, and only a quick swerve by their chauffeur prevented a serious accident...
Born. To the Duke and Duchess of York, a daughter; in London. (See COMMONWEALTH...