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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.
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  • 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
  • The bride wore a duchess satin gown - by Christiana Cature - with a detached train and bow detail, and a two-tier veil.
  • There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch £2.5m
  • Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • The prince and his new duchess had invited representatives of their pet charities to share their special day.
  • We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
  • The Duke and Duchess were so wealthy that they seemed to have money coming out of their ears.
  • The Duchess's ambassadorial role is her first official position with a national organisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Proust memorialized his infatuation with her beauty and social grace in the character of the Duchesse de Guermantes.
  • The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
  • The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • The confederates then passed out from the council chamber into the grand hall; each individual, as he took his departure, advancing towards the Duchess and making what was called the "caracole," in token of reverence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
  • Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
  • The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
  • We were both on the point of retiring; when the Duchess, after a brief consultation with some of the surrounding matronage, made a sign to Mariamne to approach. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
  • The beau monde even dictates style to the overfed Prince of Wales, ridiculous in his pantaloons, and to soignée duchesses, who trade in their silks and satins for cotton, the ‘poor stuff’ of the French Revolution.
  • But the new duke and duchess were determined to keep Woburn in the family and to make it a paying proposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inspired by the legendary botanical gardens in Padua, Italy where the Medicis plotted the untimely, frothing ends of their enemies, an English duchess has created a garden dedicated entirely to flora deadly and/or narcotic. Alnwick Poison Gardens
  • The prince and the duchess arrived at Balmoral last night.
  • The duke and duchess have talked in the past about their competitive nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • angelica vestis" of the tertiary order; and the "beatified" Duchess who had sold her jewels to buy corn for the poor during the famine of 1670, and had worn a hair-shirt under a corset that seemed stiff enough to serve all the purposes of bodily mortification. The Valley of Decision
  • In fact, one of the duchesses from the princess's court was my best friend.
  • The Duchess of Cambridge was among the runners and riders for the "British Style" award, a publicly-voted prize designed to recognise the It-est It-girl of the year. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Despite her status, the Duchess will not be given preferential treatment.
  • The duke and duchess were staying in Norfolk. The Sun
  • Craig Janek and Dr. Sean Funston "ribboned" the royal path for Duchesses Meg Walker and Jennifer Dominguez and Dukes Keith McFatridge and Dr. James Grant. The Daily News - News
  • The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
  • Marriage made her Lady Andrew Cavendish, then Marchioness of Hartington, th en Duchess of Devonshire that ' s all the same husband, and I can ' t blame Americans who find British nomenclature taxing; since her husband died six years ago, she has been the Dowager Duchess. Portrait of a Vanishing World
  • The duke and duchess have form on the subject. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rovere, or of other smaller fry who have lent their helot's pens to weave mendacious records of her life, dubbing her murderess, adulteress, and Heaven knows what besides -- I will but refer them to the archives of Ferrara, whose Duchess she became at the age of one-and-twenty, and where she reigned for eighteen years. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
  • Besides, the duke and the duchess still had much to discuss with each other.
  • The Duchess of Cambridge looks like a fairy-tale princess because she is slim and pulchritudinous, but ostensibly it's the long, blow-dried locks that ice the cake; ditto her potential lady in waiting, sister Pippa. The Taming of 'The Do'
  • I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. The Master Mummer
  • As far as is known, however, no other members of the family received any of the Duchess' jewels by bequest.
  • He insisted that his relationship with the duchess was purely professional.
  • What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?" said the duchess; "it is a word I never heard in all my life. Don Quixote
  • Three of the four dedications involve members of the Gonzaga family, two of whom lived in Rome, the third one (Duchess Eleonora of Austria) residing at the court in Mantua.
  • When the duchess smiles, her face lights up like a 100-watt light blub. Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!
  • But the Duchess rushes to her pet's defense and says she will not be parted from the wise squire.
  • Duchesse de Guermantes, for her part, took good care not to invite when it was her turn to entertain the Princess, but substituted for them without any abstract reasoning about Bonapartism the most brilliant coruscation of all the beauties, all the talents, all the celebrities, who, the exercise of some subtle sixth sense made her feel, would be acceptable to the niece of the Emperor even when they belonged actually to the Royal House. The Guermantes Way
  • The ball opened with a brantle which his Majesty danced with the duchess, The Touchstone of Fortune
  • M. de Maupeou came to me in December, and after having gently scolded me for what he termed my carelessness, he showed me a letter from the duchesse de Grammont, which, he said, would wonderfully aid our plans. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
  • But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess - and by now she was totally out of the Palace's control.
  • The countess Mathilda, grand duchess, his cousin-german, more powerful than himself in Italy, was his mortal enemy. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The Duchess and Mme Arlette exchanged a final nod, then the Duchess mounted the steps to the stage and stepped through the curtains. DEATH IN FASHION
  • The duchess has been the face of Weight Watchers for almost a decade now. CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006
  • The duke and duchess were there to highlight the threat of poaching and how animals and people can co-exist in such remote rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lady below the rank of duchess was likely to be rusticated from the court if she sat upon a cushioned stool in the royal chapel or, if in the presence of the King, anywhere else.
  • We were privileged and delighted to receive Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall as official guests on Thursday 24 July.
  • The Duchess looked radiant in a red satin gown. The Sun
  • He argued that Camilla should not become queen, and instead take the title Duchess of Lancaster - the king is always the Duke of Lancaster.
  • The duke and duchess have talked in the past about their competitive nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since Haydn was patronized by Marie-Antoinette's mother and the young archduchess grew up listening to his music, it is fitting to see her picture on the cover. A New CD
  • The grand duke or duchess, the ceremonial head of state, appoints the prime minister, who is responsible to a sixty-member Chamber of Deputies that is popularly elected every five years.
  • While you can boast of your three overwhelming millions, we can only produce our poor one million, — a mere nothing in your eyes, though three times the dowry of an archduchess of Austria. A Marriage Contract
  • The Archduchess and the English king remained friends until his death in 1547.
  • But its website sternly warns: 'There will be no public access or opportunity to view the duke and duchess from afar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having finished the hurried and uncomfortable meal, consisting chiefly of tinned tongue and a rather out-of-date cream cheese, Toni was allowed to run home to change her dress; and at half-past two precisely she was back, robed in the daintiest, filmiest white lawn gown, to take her place with the other stallholders, in readiness for the opening ceremony, performed, much to the delight of the entire Madgwick family, by a real duchess. The Making of a Soul
  • Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga, a very beautiful kneeling figure, robed in the habit of a Cardinal, with the rochet, which is also a portrait from life; and in front of that Cardinal is a portrait of Signora Leonora, the daughter of the same Marquis, who was then a girl, and afterwards became Duchess of Urbino. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
  • The American Duchess is the most genteel paddle steamer to launch on the mighty river. Times, Sunday Times
  • Teddy-bear that the matter had to be adjusted by distracting his attention in the direction of some drilling soldiers, while Wally concealed the toy under the embroidered rug which protected the plump legs of the "duchess" -- who submitted with delighted gurgles to being tickled under the chin. Captain Jim
  • Little wonder that the kind Duchess looked "disconsolate" in the middle of her content! Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
  • ‘Her Grace, the Duchess of Kensingbroke,’ the page announced in his piping soprano.
  • On her tour of the vineyard, the duchess tasted a selection of base wines, which are blended to make sparkling wines. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well then, Lady Grace Jameison, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife, my partner, my duchess, and the mother of my children?
  • Alain and Enguerrand were ushered up the grand staircase, lined with tiers of costly exotics as if for a fete; but in that and in all kinds of female luxury, the Duchesse lived in a state of _fete perpetuelle_. The Parisians — Volume 05
  • Consuelo and Sunny officially divorced in 1921, and after obtaining an annulment from the Pope (as Sunny had converted to Catholicism and the Balsan family viewed the marriage between Consuelo and Jacques as unsanctioned due to her divorce), Gladys finally became the (2nd) 9th Duchess of Marlborough at age 40. An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade
  • The manuscript adds that an attempt by the Duchess to prevent Lord and Lady Harley from distraining tenants who did not pay their rent has been thrown out of court.
  • quite agreeable", and that his sister would give up her place in the carriage and go by train; and Deb, facing him with the air of a duchess, thought how thoroughly "shoppy" his manner was. Sisters
  • This long letter from Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, is handwritten in 1768 and addressed to her daughter Marie Caroline, the future queen of Naples.
  • Albert, vowed not to change her linen till Ostend was taken; this siege, unluckily for her comfort, lasted three years; and the supposed colour of the archduchess's linen gave rise to a fashionable colour, hence called _l'Isabeau_, or the Isabella; a kind of whitish-yellow-dingy. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • The duke and duchess met key figures involved in the building and running of the health centre, before being taken on a guided tour of the facilities.
  • I was presented to the Duke and also the Duchess, who is a Dane.
  • The Duchess saw work in the floristry workshops, animal centre and walled gardens before viewing exhibits at Lackham's museum of agriculture and rural life.
  • Having learned such precautions, Martin consulted "The Duchess" for tone, and proceeded to mix according to formula. Chapter 28
  • The duchess carried her grandchild to the font, -- a font draped with cramoisy velvet. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
  • 'To find other people's unposted letters in an old pocket; to be seen looking at oneself in a street-mirror, or overhead talking of the Ideal to a duchess; to refuse Nuns who come to the door to ask for subscriptions, or to be lent by a beautiful new acquaintance a book she has written full of mystical slipslop, or dreadful musings in an old-world garden --' More Trivia
  • It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.
  • In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
  • Despite her status, the Duchess will not be given preferential treatment.
  • The Duchess had asked me to come take pictures, so I did, trying in vain to navigate the difference between too-bright flash and too-dim no-flash, trying to get a picture of Janice with her mouth open instead of thoughtfully pursed, which is how it somehow managed to be ever time my camera thought through its digital mazes and finally took the shot. Janice Erlbaum
  • The makers of white duchesse satin are upping production.
  • The other is a model duchess who is working hard at her new role and following royal protocol. The Sun
  • The duchess might have some misgivings about her husband returning to the air. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beethoven's Ninth Symphony taken at a wrong tempo than a duchess by losing a diamond necklace, I was indifferent to the repulsive fact that if I had fallen in love with the duchess I did not possess a morning suit in which I could reasonably have expected her to touch me with the furthest protended pair of tongs; and I did not see that to remedy this The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
  • 'But she is not the Duchess of Hamptonshire -- who used to --' Alwyn's tongue stuck to his mouth, he could get no farther. A Group of Noble Dames
  • There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
  • The duchess and countess would be there to help her.
  • Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • The duchess is expected to come out of hiding to attend the ceremony.
  • The general, accompanied by his staff and eight thousand soldiers, then entered that lovely little spot, called Gotha, to visit the talented and princely duke and duchess. Frederick the Great and His Family
  • So I had my free lunch (very nice grilled chicken, duchesse potatoes, spinach, artichokes and baby corn, followed by a chocolatey/creamy confection with a delicious orange sauce) and then headed back into the office.
  • Vaenius relates how the archduchess Isabella suggested his earlier love emblems Amorum Emblemata, 1608 might be reworked 'in a spiritual and divine sense.' Amoris divini emblemata
  • The Duchess of Cambridge looks like a fairy-tale princess because she is slim and pulchritudinous, but ostensibly it's the long, blow-dried locks that ice the cake; ditto her potential lady in waiting, sister Pippa. The Taming of 'The Do'
  • It was the morning of the Duchess of Devonshire's rout that Carstares again broached the subject. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
  • JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE": Even though Camilla is now technically, she is the princess of Wales, out of respect for Diana, she ` ll be known as the duchess of Cornwall. CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2005
  • Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
  • Duchess of Hereward adopted little Marie Perdue; "perdue" no longer, but the cherished pet of a fond foster-mother. The Lost Lady of Lone
  • At least, I think it is a glare, maybe the old roué is on the pull and has mistaken the duchess of Cornwall for one of the ladies of the night that are standard fare at Tory party parties.
  • Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
  • Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol… et aventures mystérieuses de la princesse d'H… et de la… Sex for Thought
  • So saying, the Duchess rose, and the Major, bowing gallantly gave her the limb she demanded, and went off with her, 'haw'-ing in his best and most ponderous manner. The Amateur Gentleman
  • ‘My father is a lord, Alex's mum is a duchess, and Brandon's father is an earl,’ Josh explained.
  • The Duchess was on-trend with a boho chic look on a visit to the slums. The Sun
  • A more amusing feud was currently on display on the persons of Lady Isend and Duchess Abel; if they piled on much more in the way of jewelry and begemmed trimmings to their gowns, they might not be able to get up again if they fell over. Brightly Burning
  • And the Duchesses, 'drat 'em, may go and be blowed; Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890
  • She wore a dress of silver tissue and a stomacher covering the whole centre part of her bodice, set with a number of very large diamonds, worth quite extravagant sums according to the Duchess of Northumberland.
  • In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
  • A move to the village would give the Duchess her independence while allowing her daughters to be in close proximity to their father.
  • That, in a nutshell, is how the duke and duchess like it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The unbroken bottle was the first hitch in what had been a momentous day for the Duchess. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Duchesse de Langeais (for that was her name) had been married for about four years when the Restoration was finally consummated, which is to say, in 1816. The Duchesse De Langeais
  • Mazarin's numerous nieces, and the opera, that new importation from Italy, which the Cardinal was bringing into fashion; while in the remote past of half a dozen years back the Fronde was the only interesting subject, and even that was worn threadbare; the adventures of the Duchess, the conduct of the Prince in prison, the intrigues of Cardinal and Queen, Mademoiselle, yellow-haired Beaufort, duels of five against five -- all -- all these were ancient history as compared with young Louis and his passion for Marie de London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
  • Indeed, if we count the "Annals of the Empire," which he wrote to please the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, he may rank also under the third remaining head among the annalistic historians. Voltaire
  • The Archduchess Sabine von Wuerttemberg is credited with founding the University of Wuerttemberg-Moempelgard and the Hotel de Kunigunde, a hospital for women.
  • Her description of the Duchess of Milan's gown is detailed and enthusiastic; her opinions on 'rebatos' and 'tires' have the assurance of envious observation.
  • (for the general had chosen them) that they were each and all of them in their way comfortable, in the full English spirit of the word, and according to the French explanation of _comfortable_, given to us by the Duchess d'Abrantes, _convenablement bon_; but in compassion to Mr. Churchill's fastidious restlessness, she would now show him a perfection of Tales and Novels — Volume 10
  • There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
  • The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • When he appeared in Cork in 1491 he was taken up by a number of people who wished to embarrass Henry, including the earls of Kildare and Desmond, Charles VIII of France, and Margaret, dowager duchess of Burgundy.
  • In the books, he is the chief antagonist along with his henchmen and the ever-present Duchesse de Winter (who also existed AND stole diamonds from the Duke of Buckingham). Real People From The Three Musketeers | myFiveBest
  • These words, taken from a special patent of 1644 granting Lady Alice the hollow title of duchess, effectively recognised Robert Dudley's legitimate birth seventy years after the fact.
  • Afterwardes they entred into the churche with great deuotion, where when the Duchesse had made certaine particuler praiers, shee began to perceiue that God had withstanded her lasciuious wil, and pitying the good Duke her husband, would not permit him to be deceiued in suche disloyal sort, repentantly bewayling her forepassed faulte. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • BOB COLACELLO, "VANITY FAIR": Well, it was quite amusing actually to see all these sophisticated kind of blase New Yorkers normally suddenly when the prince and duchess appeared in the museum, everyone was jostling for position trying to get close to them and talk to them. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005
  • Besides Mr. Oakhurst, who was known to be a coolly desperate man, and for whose intimidation the armed escort was intended, the expatriated party consisted of a young woman familiarly known as "The Duchess;" another who had won the title of "Mother Shipton;" and "Uncle Billy," a suspected, sluice-robber and confirmed drunkard. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
  • Anthony Devlin-Pool/Getty Images Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, visited the 'Marwari' horses, known for their endurance, in Jodhpur, India, Tuesday. Prince Charles' Visit to India
  • Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained?
  • What lofty habits would you indulge in if you were a duke or a duchess? Times, Sunday Times
  • Duchess is disgraced -- all the characters stand in the well-defined semicircle which is the stage method of writing the word "finis" -- Mrs. Yates speaks a very neat and pointed "tag" -- and that's all. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
  • A keen chess player, the Duchess has also commissioned a Gloucestershire craftsman to carve a wooden chess set for Charles.
  • An exquisite embroidered bed hanging and cover of silk and silver wire, known as a "Lit à la Duchesse" and acquired by the Getty in 1979 but never before displayed, makes its debut amid a surfeit of gilded framed paintings and articles related to the morning toilette, the ritual of dressing, coiffing and applying cosmetics that was often a surprisingly public affair for women in polite society. With All the Time in the World
  • Anne Mowbray was bride, duchess, virgin, the richest heiress in the land.
  • The duke and duchess have form on the subject. Times, Sunday Times
  • One assumes there are many important moments in the life of a marchioness, which is the British aristocratic title that comes after duchess. Saturday Conversation: The Marchioness of Worcester
  • The highlight of the week was the Duchess of York's one day flying visit.
  • The duchess always says it's important to have a keen pair of ears and keep quiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • On her tour of the vineyard, the duchess tasted a selection of base wines, which are blended to make sparkling wines. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both my parents thought that having the title of grand duke and duchess were the most important things in the world and that my brother, my sister, and I should cherish our titles and our importance and our wealth.
  • His chief patrons were the Sidney family, the earl of Pembroke, the countess of Bedford, and the duke and duchess of Newcastle.
  • We got into a 'diable', a sort of vehicle then very fashionable, and at eleven o'clock in the morning we were introduced to the duchess. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • So what does a duchess wear on the cover of Vogue? Times, Sunday Times
  • Here is a prayer of the eldest daughter, Grand Duchess Olga:Send us, Lord, the patience, in this year of stormy, gloom-filled days, to suffer popular oppression, and the tortures of our hangmen. Archive 2009-07-01
  • The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
  • In fact the two were childhood friends and the duchess herself scoffed at the suggestion. Times, Sunday Times
  • J Brand was already the must-have jean brand for the style pack even the Duchess of Cambridge wanted a piece of the action but this long-term collaboration has won the label further fashion credentials. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • At twenty-five, she was offered the editorship of Tatler, a London society rag teeming with duchesses in disastrous yellow satin and dampeyed earls on horseback.
  • None of the dogs belonging to either the duke and duchess or the earl and countess ever barked.
  • Surprised, the dowager duchess sputtered for a few times before exclaiming, ‘Raphael!’
  • They possibly thought of the desk around 1770 as a present to Marie Antoinette, archduchess of Austria and dauphine of France, in an attempt to gain the favor of the French court.
  • In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
  • The duchess always says it's important to have a keen pair of ears and keep quiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Duchess is patron of the charity dedicated to helping children and adults with mental disabilities to overcome their handicaps.
  • Twenty-two years later, as Duchess of Lauderdale and already somewhat florid, but with a defiantly low corsage, she sat again for Lely with the Duke her husband.
  • The duchess always says it's important to have a keen pair of ears and keep quiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Duchess looked radiant in a red satin gown. The Sun
  • This is the moment when the 14-year-old Austrian archduchess was stripped naked to be handed over to the French and re-dressed. Sofia's Choice
  • The bride, given in marriage by her father Nickey, looked radiant in an ivory strapless duchesse satin dress with beaded neckline.
  • The Archduchess was an avid hunting companion of Henry’s second queen consort, Anne Boleyn, as well as a bit of a gambler at cards, having once lost and then regained her wedding band from one of Henry's nobles.
  • Born on Christmas Day, 1901, Alice, the dowager Duchess of Gloucester, lived to see 20 prime ministers and five monarchs.
  • Ever resourceful, the Duchess commanded her dealer to take photographs of the paintings of the same size and place them in their original mounts and frames.
  • By the end the "poor little person" – as Diana Mitford called the duchess – far from being vindicated, is shown as stupid and venal, the moment of glamour in the 1930s just that, a chance whereby she caught the light of history. Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
  • According to the ‘RailLinks’ pamphlet, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's stately home is down on the south coast, with nearby Bakewell on the Isle of Wight.
  • And the epistolary appearance of Lord Peter's mother - the apparently fluttery but always acute duchess, is certainly a Sayers highlight.
  • Yet the rime, which is as evident as the recurring strokes of a tack-hammer in Pope, is scarcely heard at all in _My Last Duchess_. Robert Browning: How to Know Him
  • Daughter Emma, who is the third generation of Braders to ride in point-to-points, also won on Duchess Account.
  • The duke and duchess were there to highlight the threat of poaching and how animals and people can co-exist in such remote rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the party this dowager duchess looked at me and whispered loudly, ‘It's disgusting!
  • Perhaps the perplexity, if any, arose from Anne Duchess of Hamilton, the inheritress of the ducal honours by virtue of the patent of 1643, after the deaths of her father and uncle _s.p. m. _, having obtained a _life dukedom_ for her husband, Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Great fun, certainly: but precisely why the duke and duchess are there is open to question. Times, Sunday Times
  • My very good friend the novelist is actually a Serbian duchess, hereditarily; I'll pass the appeal along. Serbian speaker?
  • The Duchess had never been liked by many courtiers and members of the Royal Household since the day of the engagement.
  • The other is a model duchess who is working hard at her new role and following royal protocol. The Sun
  • In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
  • The worrying thing is that the book is likely, rather, to be part of the duchess's journey of healing and renewal that she's been making over the past few years.
  • There are the kings and queens, princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, and barons.
  • But if there was a faux pas, why not by the Duchess rather than her fellow guest? Times, Sunday Times
  • This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
  • She watched as the Duchess began asking questions and her face changed with the replies. DEATH IN FASHION
  • That, in a nutshell, is how the duke and duchess like it. Times, Sunday Times
  • In reference to the connection between the duchess and the ropedancer, Mr. Pope introduced the following lines into his "Sober Advice from Horace: Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • He was suddenly attacked by dukes and duchesses and lords and ladies, all wanting to speak to him.
  • As for her biographer, our last sight of him is consistently bathetic as he leaves the sale of the duchess's effects, having successfully bid for a monogrammed bathmat. Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
  • The Duchess matched the multicolour silk dress with a slate grey, embroidered cropped jacket and matching fascinator.
  • But the new duke and duchess were determined to keep Woburn in the family and to make it a paying proposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the characters in the operetta was a duchess whose adventures afforded the audience much diversion. His Excellency the Minister
  • The now Duchess of Cornwall has had many outfits made by the label, Robinson Valentine in the past five years, so they are familiar with dressing Camilla.
  • The Duchess was on-trend with a boho chic look on a visit to the slums. The Sun
  • In the front pew were the dowager duchess, the eighth Duke of Rivenston, the Duke of Stafford and the Lady Lorraine.
  • Getty Images The dinner hosted by the Maharaja and Maharani of Patiala at the Moti Bagh Palace for Prince Charles, prince of Wales, second right, and Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall in Patiala, India, Monday. Prince Charles' Visit to India
  • Au moment de prendre la fuite, la duchesse Camille n'imaginait pas une seule seconde que ce voyage forcé jusqu'aux confins du royaume allait prendre une tournure si... excitante. Leçons de plaisir - Happy Book Birthday to my French edition!

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