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...village mothers, tweaked the noses of their babes in prams, left a wake of amazed comment: "Blimey! Imagine shaking hands with a Lord." He spoke briefly and snappily, closed by hoisting his hands overhead and shouting, "Don't let the old side down." His attractive mother, the Duchess, followed him to explain that, really, her boy was deeply interested in serious things like pensions for veterans...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...
...monarch is a sort of father. . . ." The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were back in the Bahamas, their visit to the Duchess' Aunt Bessie Merryman in Boston having extended itself into the couple's longest U.S. stay-two months, mostly in Manhattan...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...Duke and Duchess of Windsor were still around, seven weeks after they had arrived in the U.S. to see how the Duchess' ailing Aunt Bessie was doing up in Boston (she was doing all right). At Yale the Duke reviewed cadets, autographed a biography of Victoria. Few nights later he and the Duchess were in Manhattan, nightclubbing...