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DONALD A. WINDSOR Norwich...
...cello and the trumpet. His only close friends are in the family-his Gloucester cousins, Prince William, 25, and Prince Richard, 23, and a German cousin, Prince Guelf of Hannover. He is occasionally seen squiring a pretty girl about London, and the Queen gives private dances for him at Windsor Castle. The girls, however, are invariably old friends from childhood or sisters of schoolmates. So far, there has been no hint of a romance in the prince's life...
Some Tories were recklessly outspoken in their opposition to independence. "Damn the rebels!" cried one Massachusetts Tory. "I wish they were all scalped; damn the Congress to hell." Like a latter-day emissary to Hanoi, a Pennsylvania Tory named Samuel Shoemaker made his way to Windsor Castle and emerged after an interview to proclaim the kind of admiration for George III that occasional U.S. visitors have felt for Ho Chi Minh: "I wished some of my violent countrymen could have such an opportunity. They would be convinced that George III has not one grain of tyranny in his composition...
Nothing earns so much sympathy these days as the plight of the second-class citizen, and even the Duchess of Windsor, 70, qualifies. The Duchess "has been officially relegated to the position of a second-class wife," complains British Genealogist Philip Thomas in the latest edition of the authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred...
Invitations were already out from the rival stores, Alexander's and Ohrbach's, not only for big press showings of originals and their duplicates in mid-September, but also to such big names as the Duchess of Windsor and Mrs. Nel son Rockefeller, who would help attract a glittering crowd to public displays a week later. Though the original dresses had sold in Paris for between $700 and $5,000, Ohrbach's and Alexander's copies, made from the same French fabrics and virtually impossible to tell from the originals, would sell...