Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striped trousering. On all sides would-be wedding guests were maneuvering for one of the precious invitations being addressed by a corps of Palace secretaries. Palace authorities refused to name the 2,000-odd included on the list. A few omissions were known: Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Windsor, and his Duchess, for instance, and Philip's three sisters, whose princeling husbands were all good Germans throughout...
According to the News, the nicest man in the College is not even a Harvard man. He is Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer from Duke University, who asked the monitors to put "the fairest flowers" right in front of him in the first rows...
...daughter of Leopold, Duke of Albany and brother of Edward VII, Princess Alice is Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed;, as wife of the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary, she is also Elizabeth's great-aunt...
...voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington) with a kind of happy deedle-dee-dee whisper...
Married. Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 21, dark-haired daughter of the Duke of Alba, enormously wealthy ex-Ambassador to Britain and one of the world's most formidably titled men -six times a duke, 18 times a count, twelve times a marquess, 15 times a grandee of Spain; and Luis Martinez Irujo y Artazcoz, 26, fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor; in Seville...