Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday the King went to church. This was announced in the Court Circular, omission of such weekly notice having been what first put the clergy onto Edward VIII, long before they heard of Mrs. Simpson. On Monday there were cheers for His Majesty among brokers on the Stock Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have...
Dignity, like the Imperial mantle which is placed upon England's King at his Coronation, clothed Edward VIII and his every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master...
Scarcely anyone failed to tune in on Edward VIII as he took leave of his country or to read within a few hours the simple words with which His Royal Highness said good-by to very nearly all except "the woman I love...
...Stanley Baldwin and a few hundred others. They rule over millions of British soft hats, tens of millions of caps and hundreds of millions of Indian noddles. Members of the British Royal Family have long had this basic reality embedded in their natures, and last week in King Edward VIII's hour of sorest indecision it tipped the scales. He left England as the eldest son who has locked a rattling skeleton in the Empire's closet and thrown away the key. Not ungrateful to opportune Winston Churchill, who had offered and sought to form a party...
With Prince Edward supplying all necessary dignity, the British Broadcasting Corp. found it possible to send out a "children's hour" message to the moppets of the Empire, a description in words of one and two syllables of the relations between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. Only a few days prior these had been so "scandalous" (because undignified) that they were supposed to be something which only a few nasty-minded British adults would stoop to read in the "American press...