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Back at their hotel they gave orders for their bags to be packed, set out next morning for Wasserloenburg Castle, Austria. They were looking forward to a rare treat, a visit from the Duke & Duchess of Kent who had been vacationing in Poland. This would be the first time that the ex-King had had a visit from a member of the Royal Family since his marriage...
When all was set for the Kents' reception, the Duke of Windsor received a telephone call from them announcing that they intended to postpone their visit, they were going to put in a day near Salzburg at the villa of Count Raimund von Hoffmannsthal and his wife, U. S. born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister...
...that time actually moved out of Philadelphia. The occasion was the British occupation of Philadelphia by General William Howe in the Revolution. Chartered in 1759 by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Proprietaries and Governors-in-Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, as "The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children...
...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 suddenly Sir Gerald wilted, sent word that he would be unable to come. Just before the guests sat down, his place card was whisked off the table...
Died. Right Rev. James Edward Cowell Welldon, 83, onetime (1898-1902) Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish -nay, even to flog-a rebellious Winston Churchill...