duchess

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• Suzy Menkes noted in an article that the jewels the Duchess of Windsor gave Princess Michael included: ‘a gold sunburst suite set with pearls and a pair of emerald panther earrings.’
• The dinner has highlighted the difficulty for the duke and duchess of how careful they should be about where their charitable donations come from. Times, Sunday Times
• An aide said: 'The duchess is cheerful. Times, Sunday Times
• The duke and duchess were caught up in a minor earthquake in Assam last night. Times, Sunday Times
• She rose in rank from fair maiden to fair lady and then to duchess.
• Netto's mother, the Duchess Atalanta, was screaming curses at her beloved son. THE FAMILY
• After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the affair as well as it could be arranged. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• THE Duchess of Cornwall wins two new fans as she visits a new inner city riding centre that she supports yesterday. The Sun
• M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
• For all its gingerbready charm, the American Airlines Theatre unlike London's 482-seat Duchess Theatre, where Ms. Aitken directed "Man and Boy" six years ago simply doesn't lend itself to the kind of concentrated intimacy needed to do justice to a small-cast, single-set play. Fraud in the Family