Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baedeker catalogued and annotated the seven major and countless minor wonders of the world. Absolute musts were designated by -**, e.g., the Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...
Friends of Bertie Holliday admired his taste in jewelry. It was natural enough; his business card read "Dealer in precious stones." He had a lavishly furnished flat in London and a country home on an island in the Thames at Old Windsor. Bertie rode to hounds, cruised the river in his yacht, and was a familiar figure at the nearby Ascot track. Some of the best people went to his cocktail parties...
Like his Berkshire neighbors, Bertie talked worriedly about the growing number of jewelry robberies. One of the most sensational hauls was in October 1946, when thieves entered Ednam Lodge at nearby Sunningdale, where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were staying, got away with $80,000 of the duchess' jewelry. Since then there had been a whole series of jewel burglaries in Sunningdale and nearby towns...
...world of Windsor Castle was not as secure as it seemed on Mafeking night...
...Duchess of Windsor has "received several offers" of jobs, the Duke of Windsor announced in Cherbourg as they sailed for the U.S. "I know that everybody has to work today," said the Duke. "I am writing at present three articles of memoire which will be published in the United States...