Word: windsor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was reported as saying that he might like to write a book. That was all the editors of LIFE needed to hear. They signed up the Duke for a series of three autobiographical articles on his youth and young manhood. The price was the author's (and LIFE'S) secret...
Louella Parsons "was dashing into the revolving door at the Waldorf and [the Duke & Duchess of Windsor] were dashing out with three dogs following them, laughing and apparently in high spirits...
Britain's aging Queen Victoria, pottering about the halls of Windsor Castle in 1892, came upon a five-year-old boy eating grapes. She gave him a kindly pat on the head, for he was the son of her personal chaplain, Canon J. N. Dalton. "Go away, Queen," shouted the brash little boy, "I'm eating grapes." Unamused, the Queen exclaimed: "What a loud voice that...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Manhattan for yet another vacation, were met by 50-odd reporters and cameramen, but refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length coat, a blue-and-brown turban, beige gloves, a mink fur piece, a pearl necklace -answered the other big question quite frankly. She thought that "people should wear skirts at the length most becoming...
...book finds Radcliffe "somewhat saturated with Harvard men" but says that anyone who "can tie a good Windsor" is likely to pass. The list of Boston night spots in the 'Cliffe write-up is so comprehensive that many of the girls have ordered copies so they will be able to answer the old "Well, where shall...