Word: mountbatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother, the daughter of Victoria, had married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. "Naturally...
Casino audiences, with Denmark's Queen Alexandrine, Britain's Lord Mountbatten and France's Maurice Chevalier, among others, floating in & out, had first heard a week of French music, a week of Italian music, and an English week. For the semaine americaine, slim, nervous Conductor Jascha Horenstein was having his troubles...
...wife of an admiral who is also cousin to the King, handsome Lady Mountbatten cuts a dashing figure and runs a big house. She has never lacked cash; as granddaughter of Banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she is the life beneficiary of a ?1,406,250 (about $5,600,000) trust fund. Last week her solicitors let it be known that Lady Mountbatten was broke and would shortly ask the House of Lords to pass a bill permitting her to break Sir Ernest's trust...
Like others among Britain's newly poor, Lady Mountbatten is a victim of crushing taxes, which each year take ?65,000 ($260,000) of the ?70,000 ($280,000) she receives. But what really did her in was last year's "capital contribution," which raised her tax bill to ?100,000 ($400,000)-?30,000 ($120,000) more than she took in. Unless the Lords permitted her to dip into capital or borrow on future income, Lady Mountbatten would become a tax delinquent...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...