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...composed of those adults next in line of succession to the Throne. Under the Regency Act of 1937 these would be the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester, the King's brothers; Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, sister of the King; and Princess Arthur of Connaught, granddaughter of Edward VII, cousin of George VI. Queen Elizabeth will also nominally be a member of the Council according to the Regency Act, even though, as in this case, she is absent from Great Britain with the King...
...fashion eight years ago offered a memorial (oblique hats) to France's late ex-Empress Eugenie, Vogue last week proposed a similar memorial to Britain's late slim, beauteous, Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to upswept hair, shirtwaists, petticoats. Said Vogue: "Now that we are going to wear 'Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence...
Married. Mrs. Audrey James Coats Field, 36, goddaughter of King Edward VII and second of Marshall Field Ill's three wives, longtime glamor girl; and Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, 29, brother of an Earl; in London...
...first time Wythe Williams went to Europe he watched Kaiser Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt bury Edward VII. Wythe Williams was a reporter on vacation from the New York World. After the funeral, everybody went home but Wythe Williams. He worked in Europe for the next 25 years. During that time he called Georges Clemenceau "a terrible old man" and was thanked by the Tiger of France for "having the nerve to say such things"; he scooped the world on the substitution of Nivelle for Joffre as the French Army's Commander-in-Chief; he scooped it again...
Died. Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria, Queen of Norway, 69, sister of Great Britain's late King George V, last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...