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Recent Examples of duchess
However, after just eight minutes, the duchess was rushed out.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
The duchess could never have guessed that, three centuries later, a generation of professional women would be using her sartorial experiment in a myriad of ways to command respect and convey important — and sometimes nuanced — messages.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
While fans will have to wait another week to see Sophie read Specs for Rex, another organization with a royal connection shared the exciting news that the duchess will be their new patron.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Prior to her appearance at the Olympics, the duchess wore another floral dress by Suzannah London during Royal Ascot last June.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
The duchess could never have guessed that, three centuries later, a generation of professional women would be using her sartorial experiment in a myriad of ways to command respect and convey important — and sometimes nuanced — messages.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
While fans will have to wait another week to see Sophie read Specs for Rex, another organization with a royal connection shared the exciting news that the duchess will be their new patron.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Prior to her appearance at the Olympics, the duchess wore another floral dress by Suzannah London during Royal Ascot last June.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024
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After undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy, the princess returned to royal duties, helping to share the workload with King Charles, who revealed his own cancer diagnosis in February, and Queen Camilla, who has been intermittently ill.Sarah Young, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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The film is a rich tapestry of scenes in rainy, dark woods and golden interiors, like the warm castle parlor where Henry woos Katherine, the princess of France, played dazzlingly by Branagh’s then partner, Emma Thompson.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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The property had been left to the National Alliance by a countess and was sold to the father of Fini’s partner for 300,000 euros in 2008.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2024
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Then one day, a countess checks in wearing a green parrot and promises to tell Marta seven stories.Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
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Multiple media outlets begin to publish explainers on the marchioness, but not all of them mention the affair rumors.Ellie Hall, Vulture, 9 July 2024
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Marjorie Paget, marchioness of Anglesey, wore the necklace to the coronation of King George VI in 1937.Amarachi Orie, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
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Because the baroness is right: Britain has been for sale for decades.Matt Slater, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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In the late 1950s, LaVey formed a magic circle in San Francisco to explore black magic and the occult (the regulars included friends like Anger, the Danish baroness Carin de Plessen, and fantasy/sci-fi writers such as Fritz Leiber and August Derleth, the first publisher of H. P. Lovecraft).Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
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The buckle took inspiration from the shoes of marquises in French aristocratic courts, and Mr. Vivier modernized it.Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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Photo: Genevieve De Manio Of the two marquises for my ring, one was more long and slender with higher clarity, while another was a slightly wider stone with higher color.Shelby Wax, Vogue, 30 July 2024
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Season 2 will follow Quinn's second book, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and the quest of the eldest Bridgerton, Anthony, to find his viscountess.Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
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Season 2, on the other hand, was all about her brother Anthony Bridgerton's (Jonathan Bailey) quest to find his viscountess.Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
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Maybe Kate can get Parton to hop back across the pond to play a few songs and, as a real Southern gentlewoman, teach those rather provincial Brits how to properly serve tea.Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
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In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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“Duchess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchess. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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