Word: windsors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Court Circular, usually meticulous in announcing movements of members of the Royal Family, was a luncheon at Buckingham Palace last week of the Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor was in irascible mood last...
...Palace, Sir," the Duke was informed, whereat Windsor used a few choice expressions and the Keeper of the King's Privy Purse was finally coerced to the phone. Among dignitaries of the Court, all now thoroughly tired of Windsor, the expression was current this week: "If he gets what he probably will get, the Royal Family will have precious little personal income left for themselves during the next five years...
...change of the Guard amid stirring fanfare exchanged nods, smiles and waves with Their Royal Highnesses. Already Princess Betty is past mistress in attracting the popular affection inspired for 25 years by the Prince of Wales, and last week an exalted Briton who had just visited the Duke of Windsor brought home a pat remark. Said Edward, "less in the heat of anger than in philosophic amusement" according to his visitor...
...irresistibly apt, for his British sense of humor. Within 30 seconds every telephone line into the modernistic, ship-shaped B. B. C. Building was jammed with the furious complaints of British radio listeners who had never before heard "Mrs. Simpson'' uttered on the air. The Duke of Windsor in his B. B. C. abdication broadcast called her simply "the woman I love." Almost instantaneously last week a B. B. C. technician had cut the broadcast, but just too late...
Honeymooning Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands arrived in Vienna last week and was entering the dining room of her hotel when she was unexpectedly stopped and embraced with friendly warmth by an Englishman, the Duke of Windsor. Later the Crown Princess was escorted by her Prince Consort to some of Vienna's mellow evening taverns, danced and sipped sour wine in one until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when...