Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Windsor's only sister Princess Mary, the Princess Royal of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, arrived in Austria with her husband the Earl of Harewood last week, first member of the British Royal Family to visit Edward VIII since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites...
...yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect to serve the Duke of Windsor, London newspapers printed that he has retained under George VI his Edward-invented rank, "Captain of the King's Flight," but in listing him last week for the Royal Vic orian Order, 4th Class, no such title was mentioned...
...shrewdest museum presidents in the U. S. An oldline Quaker, independently wealthy, his personal hobby is collecting Pennsylvania Dutch furniture and anecdotes. Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven't made any sauerkraut this year, just five barrels in case of sickness...
...Hill wrote on political bosses, concluded that hypocrisy was a bad thing. Floyd Gibbons gave an unexciting account of his attempts to broadcast from Madrid. Russian-born, English-bred Boake Carter filled six pages on former King Edward VIII, closed with the information that Edward was now Duke of Windsor...
...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...