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...They liked travel and other men's wives. Two examples are Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy who returned from a journey, declared Arlette the daughter of the Innkeeper of Falaise divorced. She had been married almost twenty years. He moved her into the Castle to be his duchess and the mother of William the Conquerer. Henry Plantagenet who was on of England's great Kings. He was a traveler who spent barely half of the thirty-five years he was king in England. He helped Eleanor of Aquitaine to get a divorce from Louis VII of France...
...Throne and hitherto always dignified to the point of insipidity, was so quickened and excited last week about whether he might at any moment become King and Emperor that, after a conference with his mother, Queen Mary, breathless York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week a palpitating and perspiring...
Marlborough House: Same day the Duke & Duchess of York call upon Queen Mary at 10 a. m. and the Duke afterwards exclaims "the worst has happened!" The King, after spending in his snuggery with Mrs. Simpson what is to be their last day together for some time, drives in to call on his mother at 6:30 p. m., then slips over to Buckingham Palace and confers with the Duke of York. Simultaneously Mr. Baldwin confers in the Houses of Parliament with the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Duke & Duchess of York sit down to dinner with Queen Mary in Marlborough House. From 9:15 to 10:05 m Buckingham Palace the King and Mr. Baldwin discuss his claim that the Dominions are solid against Mrs. Simpson...
...Even as Prince of Wales, the present King was inclined to tease the Duchess, calling her "Queen Elizabeth," by which he implied that he might renounce his rights thus making her husband King (TIME...