Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, Queen Mary refused to receive the woman whom Edward loved, but as a mother, she pleaded for her son. "I know," she told the people of Britain that irrevocable day in 1936, "that you will realize what it has cost him to come to this decision." Windsor, without his wife, rushed from Florida to be at his mother's bedside when she died...
...outfitted with more changes of costume than Goring, the marshal was treated to all the big architectural, historical and political sights of London. He saw the Magna Carta (without comment), Shakespeare's signature and other treasures in the British Museum, visited the Tower, had a good look at Windsor Castle, took in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House and presented roses and gladioli to Ballerina Moira Shearer. When they were lucky enough to catch him on one of his unannounced rounds and to see past the screen of plainclothesmen, bobbies and motorcycle cops that surrounded him, Britons also...
Queen Mary, 85, was reported to be recovering after a 19-day battle with a gastric upset. The Duke of Windsor, on his way to visit her, said that because of one of his mother's well-known idiosyncrasies he had been "very worried" and unsatisfied with the secondhand reports of her condition. He had not been able to speak with her by phone because "my mother has never spoken on the telephone in her life. It is one of those strange things. She is sort of scared of it. I don't know...
After a succession of bothersome colds, 85-year-old Dowager Queen Mary was again confined to her bed in Marlborough House. This time it was a stomach ailment. Nothing serious, said the royal physicians, but it had hung on longer than it should. Nevertheless, from Manhattan, the Duke of Windsor and his visiting sister, the Princess Royal, were summoned to her bedside in London...
...serializing them in late 1954, expects to sell the book rights for later publication. Truman said that LIFE made the "best offer" of about a "dozen or maybe more" bidders. He said he picked LIFE because "I have observed that LIFE editors have presented other memoirs [Churchill, Duke of Windsor, General Omar Bradley] with great dignity and care." In writing the memoirs, which he says are more than half finished, Truman will be helped by William Hillman, former newsman (I.N.S., Mutual Broadcasting) and author of Mr. President, a collection of Truman papers and reminiscences published last year. Although Hillman...