Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palmer House Hotel was built, the castle was built in 1885. Thence Mrs. Palmer ruled as absolute empress of society; her invitations an accolade, a command. At the World's Fair, she was hostess to the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; Duke and Duchess d'Aragona, descendants of Columbus; Princess Schahovska, Prince Cernoski, and Prince Isenberg of Russia. Mrs. Palmer summoned, too, Prince Henry of Prussia. Prince Henry was disdainful. "Is royalty to be guest of an innkeeper's wife?" Royalty was. Prince Henry came...
...peers were created by the King-Emperor, last week, but George V, perhaps with "nothing in particular to do," did bestow the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of The Thistle upon the father of the most popular young woman in England. The young woman is Elizabeth Duchess of York, only daughter-in-law of His Majesty, and mother of the nationally adored "Baby Betty...
...Walter Scott, when he slept there for a night, fancied that ghosts came eerily to mock at him; but Elizabeth Duchess of York has explicitly scoffed at all such "stuff and nonsense...
...usual every Autumn, members of the Bowes-Lyon family were fishing for sporty salmon, last week, in the famed River Spey. Among titled Spey fisher-women the Duchess of York ranks well; but she is admittedly surpassed by Super-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, a niece of Viscount & Viscountess Astor. During the week Miss Spender-Clay distinguished herself still further by announcing her engagement to the Duchess' youngest brother, the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, probably the worst salmon fisherman in his distinguished family...
Alice Anne Montgomery, Duchess (in her own right) of Buckingham and Chandos, returned from Scotland with her usual autumn armful of water colors, including one of a woman 86 years old which Her Grace calls Grannie in the Moors...