Despite the Dowager Countess' wishes, the hospitals will be merged.
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It was owned by the Dowager Empress Xixi of China.
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She's like the Dowager Countess from "Downton Abbey" crossed with Mrs.
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She could pass for a dowager now at the very least.
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Hughes, Lady Mary, and Dowager Countess Violet, return for the movie.
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The street has four dowager homes, several well into their dotage.
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At 60, the museum is still going strong, a dowager disrupter.
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She looms over Harena like a dowager empress over a royal pretender.
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"Here we go," groans Robert's mother, Violet, the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith).
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Google Mr. Delaney+ me + DOWAGER HEIGHTS and you just might find it.
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Dowager Countess, who must be at least 100 years old by show's end.
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Catelyn Stark from Game of Thrones), and Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville (Essie Davis).
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If the Dowager Countess does in fact die, she may not be alone.
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Q: So, no tearful scene set around the deathbed of the Dowager Countess?
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"Why should anyone pay to see a perfectly ordinary house?" wonders the dowager countess.
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After duking it out with the Dowager Countess, she returned home to find Mrs.
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They were the hopeless dowager aunt who brings way too much luggage on holiday.
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But even for health care policy experts, it's hard to argue against the Dowager Countess.
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The elderly Dowager Countess Violet showed no signs of going senile during the final season.
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Downton finale; Dowager Countess wakes up next to Dumbledore and it was all a dream.
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Qianlong visited his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing, every day, and when he traveled she accompanied him.
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A widow to the previous emperor and mother to the next, Cixi's title improved to Empress Dowager.
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One figure — Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) — towers above the rest, as her story dominates the exhibition.
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Downton Abbey fans looking to fill the dowager-sized hole in their hearts have reason to celebrate.
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And instead of the dowager countess's bon mots, we got Bran, just sitting there creeping everybody out.
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Costumes, including the lavish dresses and hats worn by Maggie Smith's dowager countess, will be on view.
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And the sharp lines delivered by the dowager countess, played magnificently by Maggie Smith, have been a highlight.
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There are maids puttering, ladies planning, and the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) making the dry remarks we've missed.
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Downton Abbey may have the Dowager Countess' withering looks, but the Tolstoy crew has got sabres and muskets.
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Can we all just utter a collective sigh of relief that the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) didn't die?
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The show that started with the Titanic's sinking ends with a snowy celebration and the unsinkable Dowager Countess.
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Ms. Knatchbull's mother-in-law, the Dowager Baroness Doreen Brabourne, 83, died in a hospital the next day.
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It's more scandalized than a dowager countess finding her headstrong niece alone on the lap of a rakish duke.
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They never divorced, however, and after Albert's I's death she served as Monaco's dowager princess until her own 1925 death.
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" Dowager of Brionne: "The costume is well suited to a matron of mature age … The material must necessarily be rich.
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But thanks to Netflix, there's no need to cling on to the memories of The Dowager Countess and Lady Mary.
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Over at the Dowager Countess' house, there's a bit of intrigue with Denker busting Spratt for housing his fugitive nephew.
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Bibi Ferreira speaks in the cultivated, theatrical voice of an English dowager, the result of British schooling as a child.
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After all, imagine what a movie that would be — Churchill wouldn't stand a chance against Dame Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess.
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Last week his wife, the Dowager Countess of Lucan, was reported missing from her daily walk in nearby Green Park.
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If you want an Emmy, you better hop on a plane right now and get your dowager count a– over here.
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A relic of of the Victorian era, Mary Petty's dowager tends to her winter garden on a snowy day in 1952.
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She is given a new name, Iris Carter-Jenkins, and tasked with befriending a horrible Jew-hating dowager named Mrs. Scaife.
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Can you imagine Sunday nights without plummy British accents, sniping and sabotaging sisters, and the scathing wit of the Dowager Countess?
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Isn't there a point when one can simply be a dowager, a grand old dame, or just a merry old boiler?
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But be warned: Only the truly bold can handle stepping into the Dowager Countess' royal purple gowns — barbed wit not included.
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The dowager countess' zingers still zing, and the cheesy odes to the days gone by are still as ripe as camembert.
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Oh and the Dowager Countess (played by the legendary Maggie Smith) and her acerbic one-liners deserve their own spinoff show.
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The Dowager Countess would think it very vulgar if you're wearing too much makeup, so we tried to get a balance.
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Jeremy Gerard, Deadline: And one more thing: Anastasia has Mary Beth Peil (The Good Wife) as the Dowager Empress, and she's glorious.
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The British actress was named Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.
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Lucid and acerbic, she seems like a cross between the Dowager Countess of Grantham and one of the less savory Mitford sisters.
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Rivalries among the Dowager Duchesses comprising Rajneesh's Ma-Archy were reportedly intense, and apparently to some extent deliberately fomented by Rajneesh himself.
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And Violet, the Dowager Countess (the indispensable Maggie Smith) — always the lemon in the soufflé — is scheming to secure a family inheritance.
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The two had been sitting there for some time before the dowager suddenly sat upright in her chair, her eyes lit up.
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Empress Dowager Cixi — a contemporary of Queen Victoria who ruled China from 1861 to 1908 — has long been a contentious, unpopular figure.
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The ruthless dowager queen Brunhilda, who was later accused of conspiring to murder ten Merovingian kings, gifted her with a sizeable estate.
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My favorite part of the Downton Abbey finale was when the Dowager Countess killed Denker with a bow and arrow and nobody noticed.
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Days later, Tom pulls a Hail Mary pass by summoning the Dowager Countess back from her holiday to talk some sense into Mary.
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Isobel's relationship with her frenemy the Dowager Countess allowed for plenty of witty banter during the show, and season six was no different.
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Thomas Seymour, the brother of Henry VIII's third wife Jane, later married the Queen dowager Catherine Parr, who was married to Henry VIII.
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No one did it better than Cixi, the dowager empress and de facto ruler of China for much of the later 19th century.
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He transformed a venerable retail chain with a "dowager image" by courting baby boomers, renovating its flagship store and expanding its national reach.
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Symbolism of matrilineal power is at its apex with Empress Dowager Cixi, who entered the court as a lower consort of the Xianfeng Emperor.
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Victoria, who died at age 81 in 1901, "lived so long she walks out of history a dumpy dowager dressed in black," wrote McKean.
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Infamously, in the final years of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager diverted funds earmarked for naval modernization to building a new Summer Palace.
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Thus begins a game of telephone, which results in the Dowager Countess' scheming maid Denker letting it slip that everyone's job is at risk.
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To be sure, the dowager of college rankings, U.S. News & World Report, steadfastly disdains the use of earnings or other outcomes in its rankings.
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In the last decade of her life, the empress dowager tried to polish her image by making herself more accessible, especially to Western diplomats.
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The list includes three former prime ministers of Canada, the queen dowager of Jordan and at least five members of the Qatari ruling family.
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I was particularly enthralled by sequences in which the young Anya dreams of finding her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, living in exile in Paris.
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Maggie Smith, the 84-year-old star seen lately as the Dowager Countess on "Downton Abbey," is revisiting the medium in which she began.
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The grand dowager of that species is Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," which has been running in the West End for more than half a century.
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The cast is filled with veteran actresses, including Michelle Fairley as Henry VII's mother and Essie Davis as Lizzie's mother, the Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville.
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Downton Abbey The final episode of "Downton Abbey" ran last Sunday and some viewers may already be feeling an acute sense of Dowager Countess withdrawal.
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Q: Do you ever find yourself these days thinking up a great one-liner for the Dowager Countess, then realizing you have nowhere to put it?
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On Baseball Who would have thought musty old Fenway Park, the 105-year-old dowager of the Back Bay, would be a battleground for technological espionage?
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LONDON — Fans of Downton Abbey, rejoice: the days of The Dowager Countess and Lady Mary may be over, but something new will soon fill that void.
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In addition to learning how to clean marble, address a dowager duchess, and serve a luncheon, the students attend lectures devoted to the customs of twenty countries.
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There's Doris's dowager-dumpster wardrobe and topsy-turvy Staten Island house, along with her mutterings and facial contortions, which seem one tic away from a medical diagnosis.
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Following the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty was ruled for roughly 40 years by Empress Dowager Cixi, who is credited with the early stages of modernizing China.
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The royals have more specific demands than even the Dowager Countess, and for most of the movie the household scrambles to prepare for their one-night visit.
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For decades, his headquarters — a nine-story palazzo of a building in downtown Dallas, of all places — was an epicenter of innovation, a dowager of dignified disruption.
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Lady Burlington added wistfully that there might have been even more from the dowager duchess in the exhibition had she not willingly given away so many treasures.
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There are many shots of people kissing and dancing, and occasionally sniping at each other (the Dowager Countess and Isobel Crawley get in some good digs at each other).
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There was something about her soot-stained red brick, partially decayed facade and two rounded towers that called to my heart — a once haughty dowager fallen on hard days.
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While he wears a "tough guy" mask, his movements have the quality of an old dowager who has taken the carriage into town to mix with the common people.
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About the biggest sign of changing norms and shifting conventions is when someone suggests that the Dowager Countess need not dress for dinner but can merely remove her hat.
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Anyone who relished that series for its obsession with the niceties of class distinction will find plenty to enjoy here, and there's no one like Fellowes for giving good dowager.
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Like Clinton, Cersei Lannister, Dowager Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, is constantly thwarted in her ambition as a woman trying to rule in an incredibly sexist and male dominated world.
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It was unclear which fans responded to more favorably: a dowager countess mowing down meritocrats with one-liners or a romance that involved an earl's daughter belittling the bourgeoisie as foreplay.
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There's also plenty of intrigue upstairs, too, as Dowager Countess Violet schemes to get her son, Lord Grantham, named as heir to a cousin visiting the estate along with the queen.
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Russian plutocrats buy plenty of pricey Western art, too, but like a dowager who wears only her paste jewels in public, they tend to stash their Picassos, Bacons and Richters abroad.
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Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess still lands the best lines as she snipes at Penelope Wilton's Isobel; there's a dog (possibly not the same one) at Grantham's side; and Lesley Nicol's Mrs.
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Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty supply new songs for a cast including Christy Altomare as the possible duchess, Mary Beth Peil as a dowager empress and Ramin Karimloo as the baddie.
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It is a cuisine best eased into — perhaps at the Hôtel de France in Auch, a grand old dowager on the main square that has recently been given a face-lift.
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Many of the female characters have been granted the hauteur and bons mots of the Dowager Countess of Grantham; a few of them even have something of the humanity of Mrs. Patmore.
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Much like previous seasons, the Dowager Countess spends most of season six haranguing members of her family and staff about Downton-related issues and generally sticking her nose in everyone else's business.
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How could the empress dowager have ushered in groundbreaking innovation when much of her career was devoted to her drive to preserve the imperial family that crumbled three years after her death?
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Isobel (Penelope Milton) is now Baroness Merton, having wed Lord Merton (Douglas Reith) towards the end of the final season, and the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) is as deliciously catty as ever.
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Thanks to zingers and GTFO expressions from the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) and Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery), Downton Abbey is a social-filter-free mecca built on telling it like it is.
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Captain Nicholas von Schwabe, a former personal guard to the Dowager Empress (Anastasia's grandmother), showed her old photos of the family, watching as she went red and increasingly upset, but refused to speak.
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Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of another portrait tradition: she commissioned a portrait of herself in the guise of a Buddhist deity, going one step further in her self-presentation to assert her agency.
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Live from the Red Carpet with the Dowager CountessSince the death of the late great Joan Rivers, no one has been able to match her hilarious wit when it comes to critiquing celebrity fashion.
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BEIJING - Feminists in China are embracing Taiwan's presidential front-runner Tsai Ing-wen as a role model - in a country where the last woman leader was the empress dowager more than a century ago.
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Wearing a lilac fascinator, Smith easily settled back into the role of Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she won three Emmys in 2011, 2012 and 2016 and a Golden Globe in 2012.
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Her prosperous family had lost its wealth before the Communists came to power, but the Empress Dowager Cixi—whose passion for Peking opera shaped her epoch's florid style—was a mythic figure to her.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham — plays Mary, a homeless woman who, in the 1970s, moved her yellow van into the driveway of the British playwright Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) and stayed for 15 years.
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Perhaps as an escape from these oppressive restrictions, Empress Dowager Cixi (pronounced TSIH-shee), the de facto ruler of China in the final decades of the imperial dynasty, rebuilt a fantastic wonderland, the Summer Palace.
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Hughes (Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan), to delight in the mutual bullying of sisters Mary and Edith (Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael), and to cackle at the merciless roasts of the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith).
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We can start by moving Mia back to New York; picturesque though San Francisco is, Cabot's characters are decidedly East Coast, and it's a much shorter flight to Genovia for her and for Dowager Princess Clarisse.
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" Like many estates at the time, Downton Abbey opens its doors to the public to raise money – for charity, not their own coffers – prompting the Dowager Countess (Dame Maggie Smith) to exclaim, "Roll up, roll up!
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Though perennial nominee Dame Maggie Smith was nominated for her work as Downton Abbey's sharp-tongued Dowager Countess, costar Michelle Dockery – who emerged as the heart and fire of the series – did not hear her named called.
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A Word With On a rainy morning, Elizabeth McGovern, late of "Downton Abbey," arrived at a Midtown rehearsal space dressed in a pink cardigan, white capri pants and slip-on shoes that would appall a dowager countess.
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As chairman and chief executive of Saks from 19893 to 21989, Mr. Aronson sought to erase what he called its "traditional dowager image" and focus instead on a younger customer base, mainly baby boomers at the time.
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Their on-screen alter egos may just be getting accustomed to telephones ("Is this an instrument of torture?" as Dame Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess would say), but the real-life cast of Downton Abbey is fluent in emoji.
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WATCH: The Dowager Countess' Best Downton Abbey Zingers The Downton Abbey reunion was teased in 2016, when Dockery admitted that big screen movie was "something I would wholeheartedly consider," during an interview with the U.K.'s The Telegraph.
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Only the empress, the empress dowager, and consorts of the second rank could wear the bright yellow gown here from the later 18th century, made of gleaming satin and bedecked with dragons and clouds of metal-wrapped silk.
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For the Mighty Current book on Mr. Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan, the publisher superimposed her face over a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the formidable ruler of China during the final days of the country's last imperial dynasty.
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WEYBRIDGE, England — Riders on horseback make way for a taxi driving slowly down the verdant country lane toward a view familiar to fans of "Downton Abbey" — the entrance to the home of Lady Violet Crawley, dowager countess of Grantham.
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He gets drunk and parties a lot, conducts his royal duties under protest, and generally acts like a petulant child, despite, as he is reminded by the Dowager Queen Elizabeth, having the most freedom of any consort in history.
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From the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) to Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), the Crawley home has been home to plenty of pithy comments, and PEOPLE has an exclusive look back at the best insults from six seasons of the period drama.
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Its light greens, pinks, and browns are reminiscent of the the garden that we pretend our airshaft-facing windows overlooks, while gold accented pieces give the collection an elevated refinement that even the Dowager Countess couldn't turn her nose up to.
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So while history may cast power struggles with Kings Henry VII and Richard III, The White Princess is giving viewers an entirely different fight between Lizzie (Jodie Comer), Lady Margaret Beaufort (Michelle Fairley), and Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville (Essie Davis).
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As Grizabella steals tentatively onstage in the number that introduces her, she registers not as a tattered feline on her proverbial ninth life but as a radiant beauty in her prime dressed as a dowdy dowager for a costume party.
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Having said all that, if you still prefer a more traditional gift, this fancy (unisex) cannabis-scented perfume by Killian makes for an elevated yet elegant departure from all those eau de toilettes that leave you smelling like an aging dowager.
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Meanwhile, a year after her husband's death, Margaret Tudor, widow and queen dowager, secretly remarried without anyone's approval, though both the Scottish lords and her English brother had stakes in her remarriage, which could have been used for political advantage.
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