Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jardine explained why he had defied the Anglican Church to marry the Duke & Duchess of Windsor: "I always do what I think meself the Master would do, and I never bother me head over what the authorities say is right. ... I did not come here because I wanted to fill my pockets with money or anything like that...
...dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last May they avoided socialites and reporters with equal discrimination, went for long walks in Central Park...
...newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
...graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone of an extension of the famed Bodleian Library. If she liked, the Queen Mother could sign herself Mary, LL.D., D.C.L., Mus.D. Palace gossip had it that it was excitable Randolph Churchill, journalistic son of Statesman Winston Churchill, who had aroused Edward of Windsor about the Garter King of Arms last week...
Married. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U. S. N., first husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to a Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson; in Los Angeles...