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...irascible mood last week, perhaps because of the bleak weather in Austria which kept him indoors. Incessantly he telephoned not only Mrs. Simpson but various people in England. At 1 a. m. the Buckingham Palace operator was told from Schloss Enzesfeld to put on the wire Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse of King George...
...Royal Snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles from London: With the King and Mrs. Simpson confer three men trusted by His Majesty as old friends and faithful servitors, whose characters can be accurately read in their faces (see cut, p. 22): Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse; Sir Godfrey Thomas, Assistant Private Secretary; and Lieut...
...from the Royal Navy altogether by contracting "chronic seasickness." Next put to work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, warned the nation on Prince George's 27th birthday, "that his digestion is weak and, what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their...
...27th birthday of Prince George, last week, his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, sought to calm public uneasiness at the fact that for some weeks the precise whereabouts of H. R. H. have not been generally known. After asserting that Prince George had been "staying at Sunningdale and devoting a large part of his time to golf," Major Alexander said: "It must always be borne in mind that his digestion is weak and. what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia...
Died. Lady Edith Mary Howard Cunard, wife of Sir Gordon Cunard (famed shipping family); in London. George Moore dedicated to her his latest book, Ulick and Soracha...