Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Her Majesty beside him last week His Majesty drove a car briefly in Windsor, was promptly described as "the first King in British history to drive his Queen in an automobile." George V never drove Queen Mary: Edward VIII drove Mrs. Simpson. She remained last week in France with friends whose chef she last year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor...
...peculiar ceremony, in the time of the English king Henry VIII, the marriage party of a nobleman walked in a bizarre parade headed by representations of the ancient gods Diana and Mercury, and by ten cupids, five of them white and five negro...
Cincinnati, Ohio Sirs: In your issue of March 8, you state "George VI is sound in that in which King George V was most sound, and King Edward VIII by no means sound-Character-and so is Her Majesty." Haven't you drawn your conclusions a little early in the game? Time will tell. David Windsor is in the forefront of the battle for human rather than property rights, and for the spirit of marriage as opposed to the Letter of the Law. He stands in a symbolic relation to his age, and will influence it as his brother...
...Bolitho." The series ran for four months. Last week just about the biggest biographic surprise Mayfair has had came when a few people bought what they casually supposed was only the binding up in book form of the Leisure sketches, a friendly series of bi-weekly pieces about Edward VIII seemingly penned in deepest, sincerest admiration by his friend Hector...
...clincher which proves that Germany admitted "war guilt" in signing the Treaty of Versailles is that 18 years afterward Adolf Hitler found it necessary to repudiate officially this German admission by renouncing Article 231, Section I, Part VIII of the Treaty which reads: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies...