Word: marquessate
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...Both wed daughters of Shipowner Stavros Livanos. Onassis' wife, Tina, divorced him in 1960 after the start of his friendship with Opera Singer Maria Callas, is now married to the Marquess of Blandford. Niarchos and Wife Eugenia were divorced in 1965, reunited -the Mexican divorce was not valid in Greece -after his brief marriage to Charlotte Ford...
...Granddaughters of Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, who was fifth Earl of Howe and one of Britain's best-known racing drivers between the Wars, and distant cousins of George Nathaniel Curzon, first Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, who as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1920 devised the Curzon Line as a boundary between Russia and Poland...
...week a government committee studying the question of lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 years could not refrain from noting the sexual implications involved: the bill might, said the committee, by reducing the age of consent, "take the cartridge out of the shotgun marriage." Said the Marquess of Salisbury recently: "Practices that a few years ago could hardly have been mentioned at all in decent society are now taken as a matter of course...
...bottle was filled with what 18th century wine tasters called "milk punch," because along with sugar, fruit, brandy and other spirits, some milk was added. This particular batch, which later in the day brought $28 the half-bottle, had been concocted by the ancestors of the Marquess of Linlithgow in 1750, and had been lying in the family's cellars ever since...
Died. Lady Lansdowne, 46, California-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...