Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then last week, on the sixth anniversary of their engagement, Buckingham Palace made it coldly official: the Duke and Duchess of York's marriage was for practical purposes over. They had agreed to separate formally, with the option of divorce after two years. According to scornful palace officials, the woman increasingly mocked by the press as Freebie Fergie and Duchess Do-Little was "unsuitable for public life, for royal life...
Fergie's official duties were suspended, but the royal family did its level best to give the impression of business as usual. The Queen turned up for a scheduled visit to the University of Surrey, where she chatted and joked. And Andrew? According to a palace source, the duke "is calming down, but he is bitter." Fulfilling one of his official engagements, the man once dubbed Randy Andy alighted from his Jaguar at the Contemporary Dance Trust headquarters in Central London with a broad smile and a wave at the crowd of bystanders. It was in stark contrast...
...retain custody of Princess Beatrice, 3, and Princess Eugenie, who turns two this week. Andrew is to have unlimited visitation rights. Which partner would end up with the greater share of public sympathy remained unclear. Often regarded as a hero for his service in the 1982 Falklands war, the duke proved to be less than heroic to his wife. Frequently away on military duty, at home he began turning Fergie into a golf widow as he pursued his passion for the sport. Said Anne Fernley, a London housewife: "It's a pity, really. They're a nice couple with nice...
...propelled himself out of the Crossfire thunderdome and into the first tier of G.O.P. hopefuls for 1996. He has jerked a nervous President hard to starboard and roused the Bush-Quayle campaign from groggy complacency. And he has singlehandedly destroyed the incipient threat Bush faced from Louisiana's David Duke. Not bad for 13 weeks' work...
Votes for undecided or for minor or dropout candidates accounted for the balance of the Among them was former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, getting 3 percent of the Republican vote in Michigan...