Word: warfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers in piles around the room. I pick up the latest from the table and settle back. "Wedding on June 3. Americans at Chateau de Cande". And on and on, column after column without end. Pictures, too. "The Duke and his finance strolling in the chateau garden. Mrs. Warfield's dark Buick riding through the countryside." To Hell with it all. Let's have a book, something good, something old. Out of the bookcase the thick, leather-bound Shakespeare. Flipping the pages, one by one, dozen by dozen. Macbeth, no, gloomy. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Who ever heard of them...
...Warfield to tint her hair blue to match her gown and her eyes. Blue, blue, blue. The Duke of Windsor's favorite color, Tint her hair blue. Antonio, her Paris coiffcur...
...Duchess of Kent's pre-abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
...stall (first on the right) and moved it three places down the line. This meant that in the ritual of the Garter and in the British peerage, the Duke of Windsor would rank fourth, after the King and his brothers Gloucester and Kent, so that even should Wallis Warfield be accorded rank as a royal duchess there would be no chance of her taking precedence over her sisters...
...marriage of Queen Elizabeth to the then Duke of York she was raised to the rank of royal duchess by a special order signed by George V. Trying to avoid such an embarrassing situation, London wiseacres first insisted that marriage to the Duke of Windsor would make Mrs. Warfield "automatically" a royal duchess, then veered, suggested that she might be elevated to that position some time after the wedding, when public interest had died down...