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...charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their...
...would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...
With the experience of a great K. C., eminent Norman Birkett, after fencing with the judge for just the psychologically right number of minutes, stated bluntly that Mrs. Simpson had gone to Ipswich for exactly the reasons the Court seemed to suspect...
...Birkett: "Decree nisi with costs...
...this had taken only 19 minutes, and as large and imposing Mr. Birkett, K.C. walked out of court with petite Mrs. Simpson on his arm, Ipswich police slammed and locked the doors after them, holding everyone else in court for five minutes to prevent the King's lady from being followed. Shut out were participants in the next case, but Mr. Justice Hawke let the police have their way, accepting the explanation of a counsel, "There is some trouble, My Lord...