Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18-year-old daughter of the Marquis of Douro, and rumored fiancée of Edward of Wales (TIME, Dec. 10), suffered a relapse of her prolonged pneumonia last week. During His Royal Highness' recent tour of British Africa, he received radio bulletins in code concerning...
No peasant was Merry del Val, but scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had...
In any duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his...
At so grave an hour the young bachelor who may some day choose to call himself "King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last...
Lady Anne is convalescing from pneumonia. Reports of her illness and recovery are known to have been cabled in code to Edward of Wales throughout the course of his Afric Good Will Tour (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). Naturally the Marquis Douro continued, last week, his refusal either to confirm...