What's the matter with the duchess?

Thirteen, the Duchesse de Richelieu.

After that, the grand duchess, escorted by His HighnessShe has gone!

Duchess! They're so dear.

'Very,' said Alice ' where's the Duchess?'

'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess.

I have news for you, Duchess.

Duchess, 'as pigs have to fly and the m '

Now duchess. took his time.

Eight days to produce Her Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia.

Then II am Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna.

Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia.

'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'

The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.

daughter of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II,

Her Imperial Highness, grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna. I should have known.

'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why.

I'll probably talk like a cockeyed duchess the rest of my life.

Grand Duchess Anastasia, I believe.

But the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna lies buried in Russia. Vodka?

Would you be so kind as to inform Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess, we are ready.

I devised the method of selling shares to stockholders to pay for the search for their beloved grand duchess.

At 9 30, the ball will be opened by the grand duchess and His Highness,

Now you must be the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna.

Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off together.

Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?

Including, by the way, not only Her Grace, the duchess but also Mrs Holland.

However, Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna, has graciously consented to see you for just a few moments.

Her father was a banker and she was a cousin of the author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim.

'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess 'what a clear way you have of putting things!'

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my humble pleasure to present Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna.

I suppose we'll have to feed the duchess. Even vultures have to eat.

'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that

'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.

If it is what Her Highness the grand duchess really desires, why then, I must be pleased.

The present duke is the Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.

'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak voice.

Later, for services rendered to His Majesty after his restoration by the Duchess, the title was granted the unique privilege of descending by the female as well as the male line.

Known descendants currently reside in New Jersey and New York, one of which married the daughter of a former Italian Duchess.

Fortunately, an epidemic of diphtheria restored the status quo almost immediately and even brought me a bonus in the shape of the Duchess.

'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'

If Bicky's people hadn't left him anything and he depended on what he could prise out of the old duke, he was in a pretty bad way.

Anna Anderson (16 December 1896 12 February 1984) was the best known of several impostors who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

Alice did not much like keeping so close to her first, because the Duchess was VERY ugly and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon

'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,' the Duchess said after a pause 'the reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo.