Word: lieven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political events-Cabinet crises, diplomatic juggling, Queen Victoria's shrewish squabbles with her ministers. Its value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those with direct political repercussions...
...PRIVATE LETTERS OF BKINCESS LIEVEN - Edited by Peter Quennell - Dutton...
...their contemporaries, the surprising thing about the marriage of Prince and Princess Lieven was that it lasted for almost 40 years. Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage...
...President! Mr. President!" taunted Union Member His Highness Prince Leonid Lieven (nephew-in-law of onetime Lord Mayor of London Sir Kynaston Studd). "Mr. President, although you may not be willing to fight for King & Country, I do think you might have put up some sort of show for the Union's minute book...