Word: duchessed
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...Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
Assuming that Mrs. Simpson becomes the wife of the man who last week called her before all the world "the woman I love," must she then be Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor...
...Edward goes to Marlborough House, leaving at 11:24 p.m. while the Duke & Duchess stay until 12:15 a. m. As they leave the Duke is rumored certain to be King Albert I or King George VI (depending on which name he prefers to use) within a few hours or days, and at 1:31 a. m. King Edward VIII shoots out of Buckingham Palace, driving at terrific speed to his snuggery. Lights out at 2:13 a. m. The daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits...
...official residence, No. 10 Downing St., they chant: "The King is right, Baldwin is wrong!" They march on to sing: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! in front of empty Buckingham Palace. They swing around into Piccadilly and at No. 145 bawl loud enough for the Duke & Duchess of York to hear: "Stand by him! We want King Edward! Perish the politicians...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York and Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...