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Most readers of TIME had a pretty good premonition of it some time ago when TIME reported a farewell conversation between the King and the Duchess of York and quoted the King as referring to her as "the future Queen of England." I don't recall the exact occasion but it was either at a departure of Edward from London on a long trip or the departure of the Duchess of York from London with her husband and Edward bidding them goodby...
...niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with King George last week that Parliament be asked to vote $125,000 annually to maintain the Duke and problematic Duchess of Windsor. There was no thought of maintaining them in the style to which Mrs. Simpson has become accustomed in the last few months, though she will doubtless receive for Christmas the $25,000 ermine wrap now being completed in Oxford Street...
...Sunday the Queen had recovered enough from influenza to attend church with His Majesty and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, but to bed with influenza went the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, while the Duchess of Kent remained secluded in expectation of her child (TIME, Oct. 19). In their absence H. M. Mary, the Queen Mother, H. M. the King, H. M. the Queen, and H. R. H. the Duke of Kent bore the brunt of what His Majesty in his accession address called the "heavy tasks" of the Royal Family...
...Wells an appearance of non-censorship was being maintained at latest reports. This enhanced the effectiveness of a general "smothering campaign" which was an excellent thing in some respects. If the Duke & Mrs. Simpson can be minimized, belittled and extinguished from English minds, the Duke and his problematical Duchess can soon come back to England and live more or less happily ever after. In preparing the docile minds of English newspaper readers for this, London's Sunday Referee printed very quietly indeed that "soon after the Coronation" next May the Duke will have returned to reside in Fort Belvedere...
Thus this week the woman Prince Edward loves might already be no longer the wife of Mr. Simpson and might become unexpectedly the Duchess of Windsor. On the other hand, in England, the office of the King's Proctor, who has the duty of asking the Attorney General, in doubtful cases, to bring an action and prevent the granting of a divorce in which the "innocent party" (Mrs. Simpson) can be shown to be also adulterous, was much embarrassed last week. Not only had one of the richest women in Britain instructed her lawyers to badger the King...