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When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
...stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
Meanwhile Manhattan Beautician Miss Gloria Bristol was back from Europe bursting with professional details of how Crown Princess Juliana lost some 30 lbs. within three months after her marriage, changed from a dumpling damsel into a royal wife with chic. "What Wallis Warfield was to the American woman over 40 who thought that life and romance ended with one's first youth," cried Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has become to millions of girls who had almost resigned themselves to the fate of the wallflower...
...volunteered to conduct this ceremony. No permission has been asked or given. I did not consult any ecclesiastical authority. I consulted only my own conscience. I know that the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Warfield strongly desired a religious ceremony. When I made my offer it was accepted by the Duke. It was an entirely voluntary offer on my part...
...mayor of Monts, Charles Mercier, announced that he would give up "my usual muddy little buggy" for a handsome car, and that he was buying a new cutaway coat for the ceremony. Running through the brief service, he found the Duke of Windsor halting but adequate in French, Mrs. Warfield fluent. "You needn't worry," cracked twice-married Wallis Warfield. "I know the responses...