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...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...
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...
Married. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, twice-divorced second Duke of Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent...