Word: estee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At a nubile 13 she was married to Giovanni Sforza, of the powerful Milanese Sforzas. But for her father, this was just the beginning. Four years later he forced Giovanni to an annulment on the pretext (scandalously false) that the marriage had never been consummated. Soon Lucrezia was sent higher...
From Countess Pia's point of view, however, it passed too fast. By 1948, her poetry had taken on a brooding tone, and Carlo's had become downright morbid: "I see death moving about in the room." One night in September of that year, Pia and her husband...
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, to be Under Secretary of State, replacing James E. Webb.
¶David K. Este Bruce, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to France, a rich man who has been in & out of government and politics all his life. The son of a U.S. Senator from Maryland, he went to Princeton, then law school, married the only daughter of Andrew Mellon (he is...
*Through his father, Victoria's uncle, the bookish and liberal-minded Duke of Sussex, who outraged King George III by marrying Lady Augusta Murray, a commoner. The old king declared the marriage void under the Royal Marriage Act. The son took one of his family's ancestral names...