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Word: windsors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King has been pleased by letters patent under the great seal of the realm, bearing the date of the 27th of May, 1937, to declare that the Duke of Windsor shall, notwithstanding his instrument of abdication executed on the 10th day of December, 1936, and His Majesty's Declaration of the Abdication Act of 1936, whereby effect was given to the said instrument, be entitled to hold and enjoy for himself only the title, style or attribute of Royal Highness, so however that his wife and descendants, if any, shall not hold said title, style or attribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wedding Present | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wedding Present | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke of Windsor's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wedding Present | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Warfield to tint her hair blue to match her gown and her eyes. Blue, blue, blue. The Duke of Windsor's favorite color, Tint her hair blue. Antonio, her Paris coiffcur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...Bull a birth certificate of onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to prove that MacDonald was illegitimate. Now that Mr. MacDonald is politically passe, he was no longer able to keep Mr. Elias out of the peerage. Second, Publisher Elias steered the Daily Herald away from the Duke of Windsor during the Simpson crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Third Baron | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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