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This distinguished new Governor did not reach Nassau last week, but he got part way to his post, landed at another British possession, Bermuda, from the U. S. ship Excalibur. A tiny admiral's barge brought the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to the landing of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club after an eight-day voyage across the glassy Atlantic from Lisbon. A naval band struck up God Save the King. An honor guard of sailors and volunteer rifles stiffened to attention. Bermuda's Governor Major General Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard strode forward to greet his onetime King with...
...Governor's sister and official hostess, Mrs. Francis Hastings Hastings-Brooke, and Lady Kennedy-Purvis, wife of the commander of the Royal Navy's American and West Indies squadron, advanced. To the Duke, as was due a member of the royal family, they made curtsies; to the Duchess, a member of the peerage but not legally of the royal family, they bowed and gave their hands...
...bronzed Duke, wearing a straw hat, stepped into the Governor's carriage and drove off with Sir Denis behind a spanking team of imported greys. Into the carriage behind mounted the Duchess, Mrs. Hastings-Brooke and the Duke's equerry. With the utmost amiability they drove down Hamilton's flag-and-flower-decked Front Street, turned into Queen Street past Bermuda's only traffic signal, through the heart of town to Government House, enthusiastically cheered by thousands...
...newsmen next day the Duke & Duchess were cordial, diplomatic, blandly evasive. With a tactful eye to U. S. tourist trade, the Duchess hoped that a "great many Americans will come to the Bahamas." The Duke talked of a visit to the U. S., quipped: "The highest building when I was there last was the Woolworth. That's dating...
...Duchess of Windsor is 44 years old, has a large mole on the right side of her chin and jowls that are beginning to sag. Last week, as the royal pair sailed for the Bahamas, Manhattan newspapers reported that the Duchess would stop in the U. S. for a plastic operation on her face. Whether she intended to have her mole clipped, her nose cropped or her face lifted, no one could say. She had reputedly engaged rooms at Manhattan's Wickersham Hospital for the second week in September. Her surgeon was to be Dr. Irving Daniel Shorell...