Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu. After both Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had called upon His Majesty, King Carol announced with a keen sense of timing that he had just bought the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State duties, and can think of few more pleasant ways of recuperating one's energies, or refreshing one's brain...
Just eight months ago King Edward VIII trudged through the coal dust of South Wales "Distressed Areas" on what the British press called his "errand of mercy" (TIME, Nov. 30). After looking at the treeless, blackened hillsides, the abandoned coal mines, the pitiful brick hovels, the haggard faces of the inhabitants, more than 45,000 of whom were unemployed and only 2,000 employed at the time, His Majesty exclaimed publicly: "Something must be done for Wales...
...King & Queen trod the bleak Welsh scene last week, and were greeted with cheers approximately the same as for Edward VIII, George VI was seen to chat in undertones with Queen Elizabeth. Fortnight ago in Edinburgh his radio broadcast showed a recurrence of his speech difficulty-with pauses of as much as 15 seconds between some words,-and last week no royal broadcast was scheduled in South Wales. Never once speaking loud enough to be heard in public, His Majesty handed to the officials who welcomed him a reply thanking South Wales in 100 unexciting written words...
...stories. One of these (Housman's favorite) was a mildly ironic, long-winded, pleasant phantasy called King John of Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...
...play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around...