Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable-until suddenly Sir Gerald wilted, sent word that he would be unable to come. Just before the guests sat down, his place card was whisked off the table...
...Edward of Windsor as a doormat on which aspersions may be wiped was the risky game started by the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Dec. 21), and up to play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits...
Later that night a telephone jangled far away at Castle Wasserloenburg in Austria with "London calling.'' When the words of the Garter King of Arms had been repeated to Edward of Windsor he exploded: "What a rotten story...
Then and there Windsor-although not in living memory had a member of his Royal Family been goaded into doing such a thing-prepared a public reply to a public aspersion. Shortly the London Evening Standard, which strongly opposed abdication during the Constitutional Crises (TIME, Feb. 1), was authorized by Windsor to quote him thus...
...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...