Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward some weeks ago pained the Cabinet by gratuitously announcing that he will not deliver a fireside broadcast on Christmas as King George used to do (TIME, Jan. 5, 1935). Last week efforts to persuade Queen Mary to fireside on Christmas brought an intimation of refusal from Her Majesty. When it recently became known that she had suffered a slight chill. Lloyd's again raised their already sky-high insurance rate against postponement of the Coronation. The death or grave illness of the Queen would, of course, upset all Coronation plans. Last week Her Majesty's health...
Keynote of the biography on page 117, the last page: "Wallis Simpson IS a queen-the queen of romance, of glamour and the unfulfilled longings of a love-starved World." In Lancaster, Ohio last week the Eagle-Gazette announced that it will never again refer in print to the King & Mrs. Simpson unless: 1) they "elope"; 2) King Edward permits himself to be "directly quoted" on Mrs. Simpson; 3) the affair gives rise, as the horrified Eagle-Gazette fears it may, to "a Continental revolution...
Replying to Major Clement R. Attlee, leader of the Labor opposition, Baldwin said: "There can be no morganatic marriage. The lady who marries the king becomes queen, and her children would be in the direct line of succession. The only possible way to put the matter right would be by legislation. His Majesty's government is not prepared to introduce such legislation. It would need the assent of all the dominions, and I am satisfied that this assent would not be forthcoming...
Aside from the Oxonian reference to Mrs. Simpson as "chicken a la king" and to her residence, as the King's Arms, undergraduates seriously oppose her, not because she is an American or a commoner but because they refuse to have a "King's favorite" as queen. This is the core of the opposition...
...Oxford Union, tells me that the objections to the marriage are not legal at all and cannot be met by amendment of the law. The dignity of the Crown and the powers of its example throughout the Empire alone must decide the King's choice of a queen. In a debate at the Union last week cashier divorce laws were advocated...