Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
...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...