Duchess!

Hey, wait for me. Duchess, Clementine! Turk!

Duchess, not princess.

Bragged about everything... except that she was a duchess.

I want you to meet the Duchesses of Montalban.

She's an English duchess, age 45.

'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess.

You're Edith D'Ascoyne Mazzini, Duchess of Chalfont?

A princess. A Russian grand duchess who died in 1918.

Be a grand duchess! And make it really royal.

It was Queen Isabella, the Spanish one, who then was Duchess of Calabria.

She's no duchess, but she was mixed up with a duke.

Yes, it's quite a leg for a princess, countess, or duchess or whatever it is.

Sarah, Duchess of York, descends from Anne by both parents.

'You don't know much,' said the Duchess

Because you must be duchess of Chalfont before I'm duke.

'They all can,' said the Duchess 'and most of 'em do.'

'Very true,' said the Duchess 'flamingoes and mustard both bite.

The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper box in her hand, and

The Duchess of Devontry and her Alpine guide.

She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.

I ' 'Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess 'I never could abide figures!'

It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into

But she did not venture to say it out loud.

It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.

Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to the Duchess you'd better ask HER about it.'

The guests included King Charles II, Queen Catherine, and the Duke and Duchess of York.

His secretary in the 1680s was Colonel Edward Griffith, brother in law of the Duchess of Marlborough, who was Anne's close confidante and friend.

'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke.

Isabella (1400 28 February 1453) was suo jure Duchess of Lorraine, from 25 January 1431 to her death in 1453.

'When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL.

'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little. Tis so,' said the Duchess 'and the moral of that is Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round! '

But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away, even in the middle of her favourite word 'moral,' and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.

Ippolita Maria Sforza (18 April 1446 20 August 1484) was a member of the powerful Italian condottieri Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of Milan from 1450 until 1535.

Princess Eugenie of York ( Eugenie Victoria Helena born 23 March 1990) is the second child and younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York.

While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words

Wallis Simpson, the controversial US born Duchess of Windsor, once famously quipped, You can never be too rich or too thin. Fortunately for everyone, America s motto nowadays is You can never be too rich or too large.

While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby the fire irons came first then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.

'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess 'and the moral of that is Be what you would seem to be or if you'd like it put more simply Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. '

The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other the Duchess was sitting on a three legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.

Manuel and Maria were married in Alcácer do Sal on 30 October 1500, and had 10 children, eight of whom reached adulthood, including King John III of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress Isabella of Portugal, and Beatrice, Duchess of Savoy.