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...Duke of Windsor agreed to make his first public appearance in London since he abdicated nearly 15 years ago. His role: guest of honor at a publishers' banquet celebrating the British edition of his memoirs...
...Like many another British institution, the B.A.A.S. likes to honor itself by honoring royalty. Other members of the royal family who have presided: Prince Philip's great-great-grandfather Prince Consort Albert (1859), the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...
Cash & Carry. In Windsor, Ontario, a subtle thief broke into Vacationer Arnold McCarthar's house, then called a furniture dealer, who obligingly drove up with a van, made an estimate, paid on the spot and carted all the furniture away...
...Daily Mirror's "hokum" crack was a reference to Robinson's training quarters at Windsor's Star and Garter Hotel, where thousands of curious Britons, acting for all the world like U.S. bobby-soxers, craned and crowded for a glimpse of Robinson and his flamboyant 14-man entourage or a peek at the gaudy fuchsia convertible* parked outside. Turpin, 23, son of a British Guianan and a white British mother, trained in the placid remoteness of Grwych Castle in North Wales...
...when he was 20 years old. "He looked just like any other Royal Navy midshipman," remembers a Halifax girl. "He seemed to be growing out of his uniform." Philip's wife, Princess Elizabeth, has never been in Canada at all, though her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, owns an Alberta ranch, and her parents, King George and Queen Elizabeth, toured the Dominion in 1939. The heiress-presumptive to the British throne has, in fact, visited only one of the Commonwealth Dominions abroad, South Africa...