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...Aunt Gert and Uncle Walter Snyder worked for the Scrantons for some 42 years. At Hobe Sound, Fla., one night, a tanker was torpedoed off the coast. The "Duchess," as you called her, and my Aunt Gert and Uncle Walt helped all of the survivors into the elegantly furnished Scranton winter home. About 100 oil-soaked sailors were given blankets, cigarettes, coffee, sandwiches. Mrs. Scranton was up all night helping to make the men comfortable...
...Norway, 59, a tumultuous welcome. King Olav's merry ways broke down all reserve. Stepping from his coach at Edinburgh's Princes Street station, he gallantly saluted Queen Elizabeth II, then bussed her on the cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest...
...took full advantage of it when it came. For more than 20 years she was the dominant woman in Pennsylvania Republican politics and one of the grande dames of the national G.O.P. Always wearing the latest fashions set off with orchids and diamonds, she was affectionately known as "The Duchess." And she liked her politics as up to date as her clothes. "As a party," she told Republicans in 1940, "we've got to be more modern. The party needs a new dress. I don't wear last year's dress when I want to feel fashionable...
Further threatening titled monogamy is the manner in which women set their caps for a peer ("One day he'll come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American...
Asleep in his mother's arms throughout his first press conference, the three-week-old Earl of St. Andrews was soundly pro claimed by Fleet Street's eagle-eyed editors to look just like his dad. Son of Prince Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...