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...Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk to Buckingham Palace for a long, friendly talk. To see King Farouk off on the boat train went the Duke of Kent and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...King also belong the draughty palaces of Buckingham, Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral, St. James's and livable little Fort Belvedere, all valued at about $25,000,000; their collections of old paintings valued at $5,000,000; books and documents worth $2,000,000; George V's stamp collection appraised at $2,000,000; the late Queen Alexandra's $3,000,000 jewelry collection; and the 1,000-piece gold dinner set in the vaults of Buckingham Palace ($10,000,000). Total...
...Robert Bell, Wartime groom to Edward of Wales and until last week a stableboy in Ireland, received a black-bordered envelope from Buckingham Palace, joyfully chucked up his job to work for King Edward...
...duty at Buckingham Palace last week-end were two gauntleted motorcyclists from the Army Service Corps ready to rush dispatches to King Edward's week-end hideaway, Fort Belvedere, the instant they arrive instead of waiting for the evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King...
...chlorosis, was represented hieroglyphically by a schematic phallus. In the Middle Ages doctors called, it morbus virgineus (virgin's disease). Shakespeare called it greensickness. Victims were favorite subjects for portraiture. Best of such paintings is Gerard Dou's Mal d' Amour (see cut), which hangs in Buckingham Palace...