Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves of the night clubs frequented by Mrs. Simpson and her American friends." Enter the Bishop of Carlislc. Where is Cosmo Gordon Lang of Canterbury? "Truly this has been wonderful . . ." "Time magazine once again appeared in London with pages clipped...
...Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night there was a dinner and card party at the chateau...
...Duke's allies were limited to Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of Kent. Only one of the royal duchesses who was royal-born, as Princess Marina of Greece, the Duchess of Kent's pre-abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
...certificate of onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to prove that MacDonald was illegitimate. Now that Mr. MacDonald is politically passe, he was no longer able to keep Mr. Elias out of the peerage. Second, Publisher Elias steered the Daily Herald away from the Duke of Windsor during the Simpson crisis...
Divorced, Ethel Spencer Moseley. one-time sister-in-law of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson at whose first wedding (1916), to Lieutenant Earl Winfield Spencer, she was a bridesmaid; from George C. Moseley, Chicago broker, Yale's 1916 All-America end; in Geneva, Ill. Grounds: desertion...