Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years...
...middle-aged woman, smiling, stepped out of a plane at Le Bourget Field, Paris. She had driven the plane from Lyons, France, that morning, accompanied by a pilot. She was the Duchess of Bedford (England), "just touring Europe...
Upon their arrival at Victoria Station, London, last week, the Duchess kissed Queen Mary once in formal salutation; but received from Her Majesty three warm kisses and an impulsive...
Soon the royal party hastened to Buckingham Palace, where the Duchess of York ran to the cradle of her 14-month-old baby whom she had not seen for six months...
...well she looks!" cried Elizabeth, Duchess of York. The baby, Princess Elizabeth, gurgled, crowed...