Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...
...stalls were filled. British absentees were the 87-year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that...
...mellow voice of the Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor, Chaplain of the Order, led the knights through their service, brightened by the silvery piping of St. George's choir. When it was over the worshippers moved to St. George's Hall in the Castle. There they banqueted beneath the banners of the 26 original knights and the coats-of-arms of every knight in the Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde...
...Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere on earth this...
Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...