The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, does a curtsy while holding the hand of her husband, the Duke of Windsor, former King ...

On this day 160 years ago, an important page in American history was written when the Mistick Krewe of Comus presented the first Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Comus brought order to ...

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The Morris-Downman House, residence of Mrs. George R. Montgomery, was the location for the recent luncheon of former queens of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. She reigned as Anne Cameron Kock in 1947.

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