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...Excalibur prepared to make an unscheduled stop Aug. 8 in Bermuda, and the Duke & Duchess said they would debark there although there were reports that Her Grace would go on to Manhattan to visit a plastic surgeon...
...cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled up at last with Banker Holy Spirit Silva...
Undoubtedly the Duke would have preferred to fly over on a Clipper, but the Duchess is always firm in saying: "I don't like to fly." The first of her three husbands was a U. S. Navy flier, and Mrs. Wallis Spencer undoubtedly saw and heard of enough deadly crashes to make her hate aircraft as much as she hates cats. Says she: "I pray that trains will never stop running...
...seclusion after his abdication and before his marriage to Mrs. Simpson. In a suite of cabins aboard the Excalibur, enclosing a private veranda, the Windsors entertained the U. S. diplomats & wives privately, but often walked their dogs on the public decks. Old friends from Washington days are the Duchess and Mrs. Gordon. Years ago wealthy Alice, when she periodically returned to Washington with clothes she had bought in Paris, would encourage impecunious Wallis to have them copied for herself by a seamstress. Today, although the Duchess of Windsor spends thousands on her clothes, her old portable sewing machine is still...
...Mathematics for the Million, Dangerous Thoughts) who arrived in San Francisco from Norway after a 17,000-mile detour via Siberia and the Pacific; courtly, friendly Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, with his six children (they traveled on the U. S. cruiser Trenton, left the Grand Duchess in Lisbon); Genevieve Tabouis, fleeing from the Petain Government which had ordered her arrest...