Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Reader Mueller has been lucky. It is true that Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, began teasing the present Queen Elizabeth by calling her "Queen Elizabeth" directly after she married the Duke of York in 1923. TIME reported the practice May 9, 1932. For years a few people in England took half-seriously the report that Edward might decide never to come to the throne, but available evidence indicates that nobody expected Edward to become King and then make such a mess as to render abdication his cleanest...
...strip tease, another in red flannel underwear did a fan dance, there was a scene in which one of the characters suggested that the Roosevelts "must like people; they marry so many of them," in which was outlined (but not played) a scene between Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Mary, discussing their sons' prospective marriages...
...been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII was firmly resolved to marry, it was a morganatic marriage which the King contemplated and not a marriage which would create a Queen. Both Scoop No. i and Scoop No. 2 were played by all Hearst papers in dignified, unequivocal language and both proved absolutely right...
...King directly and gravely told Cousin Newbold of the "impossibility of contracting a morganatic marriage in England, of his resolve at any cost to marry Mrs. Simpson, and by implication of the impossibility that she should be Queen. The only remaining course was abdication and His Majesty's intention was made perfectly clear...