Duchess Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Bluewaves 

Cover art for Duchess lyrics by Scott Walker

Love this song but never figured out what it means. Anyone?

It seems to me, like many Sott Walker songs to be very personal, so probably uninterpretable, though there are obvious illusions to Amsterdam, someone seeing an 'older woman' for what she once was. Something about it makes me think of an historical figure rather than an allegorical one, but maybe that's a red herring.