Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning Londoners queued up early to gaze at waxed Mrs. Simpson who was placed in the niche occupied previously by George V. Her brilliantly blue glass eyes were fixed on the waxwork of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and at some distance the figure of King Edward VIII also faced Canterbury...
...friends of U. S. nationality. As a rule, in the case of "Americans," he gave audience only to Morgan partners. In the last year of his reign, excepting U. S. diplomats on official missions, George V audienced just two "Americans," Morgan Partner Morgan and Morgan Partner Lamont. King Edward VIII, again excepting U. S. diplomats, accorded audience during his reign to no U. S. citizen- an amazing fact, revealing the grip which permanent Court functionaries maintained over even an extremely pro-American King...
...Glasgow and Edinburgh view, history will soon begin to record that altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish...
...just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII was firmly resolved to marry, it was a morganatic marriage which the King contemplated and not a marriage which would create a Queen. Both Scoop No. i and Scoop No. 2 were played by all Hearst papers in dignified, unequivocal language and both proved absolutely right...
...known to me. But to me it is obvious. A man slightly different from most men-and I think that is a reasonable assumption in his case-has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII "not necessarily in a pathological sense or anything like that"-appeared to consider him simply as The Boy Who Didn't Grow Up and Mrs. Simpson as the Mother...