Word: veragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish embassy in Washington announced that a special guest would be on hand to help with the annual Columbus Day celebrations: Christopher Columbus, 26, the 17th Duke of Veragua, a lieutenant in the Spanish navy who also holds the honorary rank of Five-Star Admiral of Spain, and a special title granted to the direct descendant of the discoverer, the Admiral of the Ocean...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...