Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young lives of Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson, and millions of others were ruined. Their elders had been too busy with their petty hypocrisies and ambitions for empires, to work towards peace for their descendants...
...difficult to find,* and with great perspicacity they took advantage of the fact that one day last week he would naturally spend at Buckingham Palace, the day on which Mrs. Simpson had to be alone at Ipswich to get her divorce. Shoals of British dignitaries had audience of Edward VIII that day, the Court Circular released next morning was one of the longest of his reign, and the Court staff congratulated themselves on a good job. It was next the duty of His Majesty to prorogue Parliament after its short session last week and reopen it again this week, each...
Before there were even rumors in the United Kingdom that Edward VIII might marry Mrs. Simpson, His Majesty last spring obtained from the House of Commons the passage of a bill under which his spouse will receive $200,000 per year. In what was considered an allusion by the King to this, the Speech from the Throne declared: "Members of the House of Commons, I thank you for the arrangements you have made for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the Crown...
...from a brewery were ready to draw the King's State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week and His Majesty's valet had laid out an admiral's uniform over which he was to wear a great royal black and crimson mantle. Abruptly Edward VIII, giving the excuse that it had started to rain cancelled all the traditional British pageantry, popped into a motor car and whisked off to Whitehall through what United Press reported as "a lack of crowds considered unprecedented...
...Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward VIII...