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...Russia's Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of the late Czar Nicholas, was Canada-bound after 27 years of farming in Denmark. The Russians had begun to question her status, so Olga & family left Denmark to avoid embarrassing the government, to farm in Canada...
Princess Elizabeth's pregnancy (TIME, March 15) was now official. The announcement from Buckingham Palace put it this way: "Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, will undertake no public engagements after the end of June...
...Duchess of Windsor was beginning to worry a little about the outlook in the housekeeping situation, she confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell. "I think," said the Duchess, "I'll eventually take two rooms somewhere, do my own washing and cooking...
Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...
...opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...