Word: dukedom
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Died. Ian Douglas Campbell, 69, eleventh Duke of Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...
...understand. Attempts at interpretation invariably fail, explaining one-aspect of the story at the expense of some equally important part, Calling The Tempest a comedy, though it is humorous in parts, ignores the gripping with which Prospero works out his revenge against his brother Antonio, who usurped the dukedom of Milan from Prospero...
...also studying in the U.S. Thus Serena and her school friends from Foxcroft, and Lord Charles' college friends rubbed shoulders with most of Debrett, led by Princess Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon (who was recently just a photographer), the Marquess of Blandford (heir to the dukedom) and his Greek wife Tina (who was recently Mrs. Aristotle Onassis). and Princess d'Arenberg (who was recently Peggy Bancroft of New York...
...country's invasion of Suez, Sir Anthony Eden resigned as Prime Minister, leaving a nation divided at home, humiliated abroad, gravely weakened in its alliances. Sick and saddened. Eden declined the earldom that goes, by long tradition, to departing Prime Ministers. Unlike Sir Winston Churchill, who refused a dukedom rather than forgo his lifelong passion for the House of Commons. Eden felt that he was too weakened by a major abdominal ailment even to make a nominal showing in the House of Lords...
...second to bear the Marlborough title was no duke but a duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...