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...picture accompanying the article. This ancestress, whom you left unidentified, was Louisa (1812-1905), daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford and wife of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. If her contemporary, Queen Victoria, can be described as the mother-in-law of European royalty, then the duchess was the mother-in-law of the Establishment. At her death, she left 162 descendants. Today they include, aside from Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec, the Duke of Devonshire, Under Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and brother-in-law of the late Kathleen Kennedy; Lord Lansdown, Minister of State for Colonial...
...passion or business. Last week both the Left Bank and the right banks puzzled over L'Affaire Schneider, which involves a battle for the control of an old and powerful iron and steel empire. Leading roles in the drama have been played by a former film beauty, a duchess and a Belgian nobleman...
Selling Arms. In one of those intramural feuds common to European family-controlled industries, relations between the former actress and her prideful mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Brissac, had been strained for a decade. Last June the two stunned Liliane by quietly selling their Schneider shares (about 8% of the total) to a Belgian group led by Baron Edouard Empain, 49, head of Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with...
Since Mouse was produced by Englishmen, it's not surprising that Grand Fenwick is slightly British. Its tiny parliament is divided into exaggerated Tories in morning clothes and cravats and stereotyped socialists in identical, ill-fitting brown suits. Its Duchess, charmingly played by Margaret Rutherford, calls herself "we" and suggests that the matter of indoor plumbing be referred to the Privy Council...
Margaret Rutherford, a dotty old duchess, is off to become the assistant social director of a Miami Beach hotel, and delay means nothing to her. To the audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...