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Show NOTED HEIRESS IS WIDOWED vi! HUSBAND SLAIN IN BATTLE T ADY JULIET DUFF, famej as the tallest woman in Lon-don Lon-don society and a close friend of King Edward. !. ;;,y:i ii :7s0A Income of $1,000,000 and Title Gees to 17-year-old Son of Dead Soldier. Special Cable to The Tribune, LONDON, Nov. 2S. One of the great heiresses just widowed by "war is Lady Juliet Duff, niece of the earl of Lonsdale and daughter of the marchioness mar-chioness of Eipon. Her husband, a lieutenant in the Second Life Guards, was killed in France about three weeks after succeeding to the title and estates of his father, Sir Charles Assbeton-Smith, classed among the richest men in England. The dead soldier's 17-year-old son now becomes Sir Charles Assheton-Smith, Assheton-Smith, with an income of something like $1,000,000 a year, wliHe hia mother may, if she desires, assume the unfamiliar title of Lady Assheton-Smith. Assheton-Smith. Famous as one of the tallest women in London society, well over six feet, Lady Juliet was a great favorite with King Edward, an intimate friend of her mother, and the king was supposed sup-posed to have assisted in making such an advantageous marriage for her, although al-though it was well known to be also a marriage of love. As she is the nio6 through her mother of Sir Michael Herbert, the former British embassador embassa-dor at Washington, she has an American Ameri-can aunt in Ladv Herbert, who was Miss Wilson of New York, the sister of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. |