Word: loelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME dated June 16, 1947, you referred to our client, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster as "recently divorced," thereby conveying the imputation that the Duchess, who had in fact been the petitioner in proceedings earlier in the year in which she was granted a decree of divorce against the Duke, had herself been the guilty party in the suit...
...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...
...impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash...
Divorced. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's wealthiest peers and most fabulous playboys, by his third duchess, the former Loelia Ponsonby, 44; after 16 years of marriage (ten of separation); no children; in London...