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...Marquess of Anglesey (428 pp; Morrow; $7.50). A debonair portrait of one of the great 19th century soldier-aristocrats by his admiring great-great-grandson, the present marquess. Henry William Paget, Lord Anglesey, spent 20 years in the House of Commons without making a single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk...
Married. Athina ("Tina") Livanos, 31, handsome, Greek-born shipping heiress previously married to Maritime Magnate Aristotle Onassis; and John George Vanderbilt Henry ("Sonny") Spencer-Churchill, 35, Marquess of Blandford and heir to the loth Duke of Marlborough; both for the second time; in Paris...
...under a new flag: the banner of Britain's hallowed House of Marlborough. After divorcing Onassis and taking custody of their two children last year, Tina was badly injured in a skiing accident at St. Moritz and convalesced in Oxfordshire, where she enjoyed the solicitous attentions of the Marquess of Blandford, 35, coltish, polo-playing heir to the 10th Duke of Marlborough and cousin to Sir Winston Churchill. Last week, claiming what apparently is an ex-husband's privilege in the Riviera set, Onassis leaked the news that Tina and "Sonny" Blandford, himself a veteran of a previous...
Married. Henry Robin Ian Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, 21, Harvard senior and heir of the tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford; and Henrietta Tiarks, 21, Britain's Debutante of the Year in 1957, who has since enjoyed well-publicized if fleeting flings with the present Aga Khan, the modeling profession and Briarcliff College (N.Y.); in London...
Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain's royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London...