Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...
Taking this as its springboard, the London weekly News-Review cooked up a two-page rehearsal of Kent's conduct over recent years, served it up hot on all British newsstands for sixpence...
...editors, while realizing that the Duke of Kent might possibly create enough scandal to affect the Royal Family, were mostly content to play down...
Allen, as having none of the importance which turned Mrs. Simpson into a Constitutional Crisis. With the Duke & Duchess on its cover, News-Review headed its story "Kent and His Companion," featuring two pictures...
Allen, who was previously the Cuban Marquise de Casa Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news...