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Full Appreciation. The Citizen's story, based on an interview with the dowager Duchess of Hamilton,* was taken from the London weekly Psychic News, a leading publication of Britain's spiritualist cult. A longtime acquaintance of the bachelor Prime Minister and an ardent spiritualist herself, the duchess declared that King "fully appreciated the spiritual direction of the universe and was always seeking guidance for himself in his work...
...duchess went on to name some of the mediums King consulted in Britain and the U.S., and said that King stood 53 high in spiritualist circles in both countries that he once served as an international go-between. An engraved gold watch given by Queen Victoria to a British spiritualist "in acknowledgment of benefits received from mediumship" had found its way to the U.S. Mackenzie King was chosen as the intermediary to return the watch to England, where it was turned over to the London Spiritualist Alliance...
...Dauphin's, death. In 1812, he was run out of Berlin for claiming to be King of France. He moved to Spandau and wrote Louis XVI's daughter Maria Therese a letter saying, "I am alive, your real brother. Ask me to prove it." Maria, then the Duchess of Angouleme, paid no attention, but others were more sympathetic. The mayor of Spandau believed Naundorff and took him to Brandenburg. There Naundorff was arrested for arson and jailed for counterfeiting, but two years later, on his release, he persuaded the Minister of Justice in nearby Crossen that...
...those of an heir to the throne of France. A new examination of Naundorff's remains did nothing to dispel the mystery, but the Survivantists were not discouraged. Next year in the Vatican, on the 100th anniversary of her death, the secret will of Maria Therese, Duchess of Angouleme, is to be opened and read. Perhaps, hope the Survivantists, it will contain the final proof that the lost Dauphin of France had been found at last...
...Manhattan, London Hairdresser Raymond boasted that he had recently given the Duchess of Windsor a new hairdo that would sweep the country: a design called "the tutored urchin look...