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Omitted from the Court Circular, usually meticulous in announcing movements of members of the Royal Family, was a luncheon at Buckingham Palace last week of the Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor...
...Kingdom & Empire are confident that the right people have now been golden-framed. Last week Buckingham Palace was a busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...
...three curtsies to the King & Queen after being presented by Ambassadress Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, gratis. English women have often paid up to $1,000 to an Englishwoman who has been presented at Court and so become entitled to present a "friend," but this form of purchased entree to Buckingham Palace is open only to women whose husbands are subjects of the King or who are themselves British...
...Dominion Prime Ministers present Addresses and Loyal Greetings to His Majesty and lunch in state at Buckingham Palace...
Best chance to see the King & Queen without having to buy a seat is on May 19, when Their Majesties drive nearly three miles across town from Buckingham Palace to lunch with the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. One may catch a local cruise boat next day to go to the Royal Naval Review at Spithead...