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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...
...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...
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...
...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...