Word: welbeck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G.), 1926-29; Parliamentary Under Secretary, Foreign Office, 1931-33; Lord Privy Seal, 1934-35; Minister without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs, 1935. Publication: Places in the Sun. Address: 17 Fitzhardinge Street, W.I. T.: Welbeck 7817. Clubs: Carlton, Hurlingham...
...year: "We are instructed by His Grace the Duke of Portland to publish this complete and unqualified denial of every suggestion that has been made in certain newspapers in connection with the visit of His Majesty the King of the Belgians and Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth, to Welbeck Abbey...
...TIME, Nov. 29), following his treaty-making visit a few months before (TIME, April 5). This time handsome young Leopold III, 36, traveled with his mother, Queen Elisabeth, and both got bad colds, sore throats on a cold, rough Channel crossing. In strict incognito they went to stay at Welbeck Abbey with their friends of many years, the Duke of Portland & family...
Twenty-four hours later the King's handsome young brother, Prince Charles, 34, arrived in England, did not go to Welbeck Abbey. In 1932 Prince Charles was rumored engaged to the Duke of Portland's fair-haired granddaughter, the none-too-beauteous Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, now 21. World-wide rumors that Lady Anne is about to become either Queen or a Princess of the Belgians were met by official denials carried on British Press Association wires and at Brussels the King's Secretary, Baron Capelle called them "childish fairy tales...
...years later he met Dorothy Cheston, actress in the Birmingham Repertory Company. Since his wife would not give him a divorce, Bennett and Actress Cheston lived together openly as man & wife. In 1926 their daughter Virginia Mary was born. Bennett describes the event very characteristically: "I went up to Welbeck St. [the hospital] at 9.30 and saw the child at 10 a. m., two hours old. She weighed 8 Ib. 1 oz. and had a big head...