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The Duncan Sisters and Royalty
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“You see Mrs. Vanderbilt didn’t know,” Vivien relays, “that we’d met the Prince the night before, and that that was why she was now asking us.”
‘ ‘ It amounted to a royal command, our invitation did,” Rosetta takes up ; “only of course you can’t ‘command’ American girls; it isn’t done. But when the Prince of Wales lets any hostess know there’s anybody he’d like especially to see, it’s a cinch that person will be asked to the party. You see how it was?”
“Perfectly.”
“Only Mrs. Vanderbilt didn’t know that we’d met the Prince the night before at Major Fitzgerald’s,” Vivien laughed.
“You really should have been there at the Major’s,” Rosetta sweetly says to me. “You should have seen the Prince sitting on the floor while we sang our songs at the piano. He always sits on the floor when we sing.”
“He played the drums with the jazz band before the night was over,” Vivien sighs. Her sister goes her one better:
“And he sang with us — sat on the floor and harmonized. He’s a — he’s a regular prince, that prince is.”
“How’d ha sing?”
“So well I told him he could join our act,” says Rosetta.
“What did he say to that?”
“Asked now much we’d give him. When I said two hundred pounds the Prince said, ‘Oh, that’s more than I ever got!’ Then he said, ‘I say, Miss Rosetta, what was that third song you and your sister sang?’ And when I told him it was ‘Feather Your Nest,’ he shook his handsome head and fingered his tie — he’s always fingering his collar and tie — and said :
“ ‘No, no, that’s one of our old songs ; that’s ‘Me