Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts...
After the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to the then Duke of York she was raised to the rank of royal duchess by a special order signed by George V. Trying to avoid such an embarrassing situation, London wiseacres first insisted that marriage to the Duke of Windsor would make Mrs. Warfield "automatically" a royal duchess, then veered, suggested that she might be elevated to that position some time after the wedding, when public interest had died down...
...supposed to be, dear?" asked Queen Elizabeth. "Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter...
Constitutionally bilious and inclined to be morose in the morning, at heart he is a "family man," specially devoted to his only grandchild, 2-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Christian's younger son Prince Knud. At home with the Queen, he twiddles the radio for her like any shopkeeper...
...true that the New York Times sent Birchall from Berlin, but he was countered by Hearst's Pulitzer Prize winner H. R. Knickerbocker, who wire-lessed in his murder trial style that, "Kneeling for ten minutes at a time was not too agreeable to the royal pair, especially Elizabeth, who is now inclined to be portly...