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Declared Novelist Kathleen Norris, arriving from Europe where she had reported George VI's coronation for the North American Newspaper Alliance: ''I predict that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question...
Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...
Declared dead. The Duchess of Bedford, 71; "on or since March 22, 1937"; in London. She seemingly perished in the North Sea while on a pleasure flight...
Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...
Enter the Duke and Duchess of York. "The Duchess of York does not think she has a sense of humor." Where is John of Gaunt? Where is Bolingbroke...