Word: wigram
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Even with all this success, Philo remains as cool and breezy as her washed-silk peasant skirts. "I still don't really understand who I'm designing for," she says on the phone from Venice, where she is taking in the Biennale with her husband, art dealer Max Wigram. "It's definitely not me. I wear jeans and T shirts and comfy shoes. I really don't dress up at all." It must be that sixth sense of style...
Married. The Honorable Anne Wigram, 25, daughter of Lord Wigram, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle, longtime private secretary to George V ; and John Leslie Harvey, son of a British army officer; at Windsor, England. At the wedding, first held at Windsor Castle in 25 years, unseasonable snow stranded hundreds of guests...
...Among those present were representatives of the three services and of the Police, the Earl Marshal, Sir Gerald Wollaston, and I think, Lord Wigram...
...days of the reign and later caused to be made a Privy Councillor. Last week exhausted Major Hardinge was beginning a three-months rest, before returning to be Private Secretary to King George VI. Back in Buckingham Palace to the joy of all concerned was good and great Lord Wigram, for 25 years private secretary to King George V. Lord Wigram will get the Royal Household back on its Georgian legs, then turn over to Major Hardinge, remaining available as Lord-in-Waiting...
...Lord Wigram, longtime private secretary and intimate personal friend of George V, he shares his former master's instinctive dislike of foxtrots, cocktails and U. S. citizens...