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...years which followed Britain began to see in the devoted domesticity of the Yorks what finally was found so glaringly lacking in Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Highgate Police Court from her rooming-house in Hornsey, North London, hied Mrs. Bridget Elizabeth Dowling Hitler, Adolf Hitler's Irish-born sister-in-law, for the second time on a matter of back debts. The first time (last January) it was the rooming-house tax, ?9 13s. 10d; this time the electric bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Watson and Foster Coates. He covered the Belle Gunness murder case in La Porte, Ind. (she cut off the heads of nine Swedish swains), chased an imaginary Belle Gunness all the way to Victoria, B. C. only to learn that she was Victoria's mayor's sister-in-law. A man of action, Pegler once got bored covering a dull riot story in Rock Island, Ill., set off a brace of giant firecrackers under the mayor's window, filed an exclusive story of the "bombing" six minutes after the explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegler's Pa | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Edward Lascelles, 50, sister-in-law of Princess Mary's husband, the Earl of Harewood; by her own hand (shooting) ; in Lutterworth, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...sister-in-law runs errands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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