Word: duchesses
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...L.BJ. did agree to allow his younger daughter to serve as queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in April. Small recompense, but Lucy-or Luci, as she now likes to spell it-was thrilled. "I've never been anything," said she, "not even a duchess...
Between now and May, no fewer than four little noble bundles will be dropped on the doorsteps of Princess Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Kent. With Britons as crazy about betting as they are, it was only a matter of time before a Royal Stork Stakes was organized. Now in Portsmouth two enterprising bookmakers have announced that they are accepting bets on the sex and names of the royal tots-to-be. George, Mary and Philip are 10-to-l favorites for Elizabeth's baby, but the odds makers are covering all angles. For example...
...Kensington Palace announced that Princess Margaret, 33, is indeed expecting her second child next year. That means, if everything goes well, that there will be a royal baby a month-starting in February with Princess Alexandra, followed by Queen Elizabeth in early March, Meg in late April and the Duchess of Kent...
Queen Elizabeth is. The Duchess of Kent is. Princess Alexandra is. In Britain these days, it's the royal way to be -pregnant. And Princess Margaret, 33? Meg and Hubby Antony Armstrong-Jones, 33, aren't talking. They're just dancing the evenings away at gala balls and such. But public and papers alike have decided that those adoring looks mean that Meg is, too. Ah well, if they keep repeating the rumor for long enough, sooner or later it will be true...
...Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...