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...While Queen Mary waited sadly in Buckingham Palace for the ceremony marking her departure to live in Marlborough House last week, the King and Mrs. Simpson merrily boarded a special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster...
...King Edward's invitation to Mustafa Kamal Ataturk to visit His Majesty in Buckingham Palace was last week the subject of a diplomatic note in which the Turkish Dictator intimated that he might not find it "practicable" to come but would send Turkish Premier Ismet Inönü. After correspondents had talked with agitated officials of the British Foreign Office. United Press reported: "Edward's invitation was extended without the Government's knowledge. . . . Perplexed British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics...
...Buckingham Palace last week Queen Mary awaited King Edward. Ready for His Majesty too was a multi-volume Scotland Yard dossier pasted up out of clippings to show what the World press thought of the King's yachting trip (TIME, Aug. 17 et seq.). Ready to be promptly received in audience last week was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, just let out of quarantine after passing several weeks at home with chicken pox. Ready were prominent Jewish friends of Edward VIII to exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence...
...motor car from Buckingham Palace was at the Vienna station and slipping behind its wheel the King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed...
Pointedly left behind in Buckingham Palace by King Edward when he went on vacation was the official Private Secretary whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin successfully pressed His Majesty to accept. Major Alexander Hardinge. The London weekly Great Britain and the East recently identified Major Hardinge as the official who never tires of advocating greater dignity in His Majesty's affairs and is tortured by informal reporting of Edward VIII in either British or U. S. publications. With the King on holiday is his actual private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, who for 15 years was his official Private Secretary when...