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EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS—Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia—Viking ($3.50). Few princesses have had such an "education" as Marie, onetime Grand Duchess of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II, now fashion consultant of Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman. Her bitter schooling has not embittered her. "Princes of reigning families are a race apart—a race that has been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned...

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