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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fairy Tales? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Englishman | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Other incorporated peers include: the 72-year-old Duke of Portland, whose ancestral Welbeck Abbey contains a half mile of subterranean secret passages; the large-toothed Earl of Harewood, formerly Viscount Lascelles, husband of Princess Mary; Viscount Astor, husband of Lady Nancy Astor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First Duke Inc. | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...note was dutifully due because Their Majesties had just been the house guests, at historic Welbeck Abbey, of William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Earl of Portland, and onetime Master of the Horse to His Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Best Butter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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