Word: godchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week was a handsome, vivacious brunette of ample presence whose Roman and Catholic distinctions are as the sands of the sea. A niece and godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant...
Died, Lord William Henry John North, 95, foxhunter. oldest British peer, great-grandson of George Ill's Prime Minister during the American Revolution; of old age; in his home, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, England. Last surviving godchild of Queen Adelaide, consort to William IV, Lord North branched from the same stem as Theodore Roosevelt, who once, on a ranch in North Dakota, rescued Lord North's son when his horse fell into a gully...