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Wondrously Magnified. By 10 p.m. of the great night, the canal in front of the palace was choked with gondolas and motorboats. Floodlights limned the arriving guests while gapers gawked from windows made available by neighboring palace owners at up to 80,000 lire a head. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among the invited, never showed up. Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else...
...cast adrift in a little boat, with a note that tells his story but not his identity. Gregorius is saved by fishermen and grows up in a monastery. In due time, of course, he goes out in the world to unravel his origin-and meets and marries the Duchess Sibylla...
...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
...twice a grandee of Spain," the 35-year-old Duchess says, tossing her luxuriant, red-gold (dyed) mane. "It makes absolutely no difference to me what Franco or his men call me. Why should one worry when there is no court in Spain at which a grandee can exercise his right of keeping his hat on in the king's presence...
...Paris and "buy a few dresses." She tried to help her cause by making the rounds of Madrid's gay spots with the pudgy dictator's pudgy, pleasure-loving brother, Nicolás Franco, who is Ambassador to Portugal. But within a few days of the Duchess' request for a passport, police were quick to note, a letter from Don Juan reached Francisco Franco asking the dictator to step down for the sake of "our common country...