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...London, no effort was made to get the Queen Mother to furnish such confirmation, but neither new King George nor anyone else denied that his elder brother had given history the correct version of who was responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable-until...
...Edward of Windsor as a doormat on which aspersions may be wiped was the risky game started by the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Dec. 21), and up to play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits...
Later that night a telephone jangled far away at Castle Wasserloenburg in Austria with "London calling.'' When the words of the Garter King of Arms had been repeated to Edward of Windsor he exploded: "What a rotten story...
...stalls were filled. British absentees were the 87-year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that...
...Shopping in Vienna this week, the Duke ordered stationery marked with his initials encircled by a garter and the Order's mono...