TROUBLES OF A DUCHESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 October 1924, Page 8

TROUBLES OF A DUCHESS.

BITTER COMPLAINT. “NO HOME AND NOWHERE TO" GO.” INCOME £BOOO A YEAR. rpi _ - LONDON. Sept. 28. .Lae Duchess of Westminster has re—turned from America. She left for the United States on the morning of August 27, the clay on which a social bomb shell was,exploded by her representatives, seeking an injunction against the Duke to restrain him from ejecting her from Bourdon House, Berkeley Square. The application was refused, and now the Duchess says that her future movements are uncertain. “It seems to be adding insult to injury to suggest that I.' should go to an hotel,” said the Duchess to-day. “I shall-• rnotor into, the country for the night. I haven’t a home, and 1 have nowhere to go.” According- to a current theatrical joke, the favourite ' song of. the Duchess is “Home, Sweet B^me.” The. Duchess had a quiet voyage from America on the Homeric. Occasionally she played, bridge with Lord Louis Mountbatten and bthers who had been guests with her at Long Island during the visit of the Prince of Wales. The Duke and Duchess of Westminster were married at a registrar’s office in 1920, after she had divorced her previous husband, George Rowley, of the Horse Guards. She was originally Miss Violet Nelson, daughter of Sir William Nelson, chairman of the Nelson line of steamers. The Duke was first married to Miss Constance Cornwallis-West in 1901. She divorced him in 1919. and married Ca.ptain J. F. Lewis in 1920. When the application on behalf of the Duchess was being heard, it was alleged that the servants at Bourdon House, one of the Duke’s London resi-' dences, had been instructed to- turn her into the streets if she attempted to enter, although an agreement had previously been made under which she was .to be allowed to live at Bourdon House, with a. handsome monetary allowance. The threat to eject her was not made till she filed a petition for divorce. The Duke denied that he had agreed to allow the Duchess the sole use of Bourdon House, though he admitted the monetary provision portion of, the agreement. The amount was £BOOO a year. His own income- from 900 acres in London, is estimated at £350,000 a year. Tn addition, he owns about 30,000 acres in Cheshire and Flintshire.