... ball which the Duchess of Argyll gave at Claridge's for her debutante daughter Miss Frances Sweeny. They made a memorable picture, this very beautiful mother and her lovely daughter, as they stood receiving their guests, the Duchess wearing a dress of ...

... had been born, ft and his legal wife had died, John of Gaunt in 1*, 1396 married Catherine Swinford, thus making ft her Duchess of Lancaster. ft Even more was done, for by a special Act of Parliament, Gaunt's issue by Catherine were ft legitimated for ...

... letter-writing, until her death in 1840. As a girl she met many of the literary figures of the day, friends and acquain tances of her learned father. Of the vast majority of these journals from the pens of women of the past from Margaret Lady Hoby's, the earliest ...

... hardly seemed born to be Queen. Many lives might be expected to stand between the Throne and the daughter born to the Duke and Duchess of York at their unpre tentious town house of 17, Bruton Street, on April 21, 1926. And like the first, the second Elizabeth ...

... Canada £5.14.6 Publishers' News The Dolphin's Skin. By James Turner. Six studies in eccentricity. The subjects include Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, Edward Fitzgerald and Gainsborough's brother. Cassell 2D.) The Mystery of Lourdes. By Ruth Cranston. The ...

... return with Sir Eric Berthoud, our Ambassador, and the Ambassadress. The other guest was the Duchess of Argyll, who, in my youth, was the deb. of her year as Margaret Whigham. (Indeed, I cannot recall any deb. before or since who so completely dominated her ...

... involved. What could be more inflammable than tow and resin? Only the King and one other was saved; the rest were burned to death, and the tragic evening is still remembered in French history as the Bal des Ardents. Nearly two hundred years later in 1572 ...

... Everyone has different fancies about this, but my own feeling, for instance, is that the only two duchesses I know even by sight those of Kent and Argyll are, outstandingly, diamond types so are Mme. Massigli and Vivien Leigh. Just as inevitably for me ...

... Denholm Elliott gives a sterling performance as Colby, his sensitive approach being in sympathy with the author's verse. Miss Margaret Leighton gives a polished interpretation of Lucasta, the moving scene with Colby in the second act producing a superb emotional ...