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...advance of opening of the case, Mr. Simpson was rumored to have committed the technical adultery required for divorce in England with a young woman nicknamed "Buttercup" at the fashionable resort of Maidenhead. A London florist revealed that the King sends Mrs. Simpson ?5 ($25) worth of long-stemmed red roses per day, or about 15 dozen in summer when they are cheap and five dozen daily in midwinter when they are dear...
Latest-born adult male of their line is that chronic wanderer and ne'er-do-well Lord Edward Montagu, 29. godson of King Edward VII, who last made news in February when, after several false starts, he abandoned his hot-dog stand at Maidenhead and enlisted in France's Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail...
...Hall, 21, who was washed overboard last November when a North Atlantic gale hit the S. S. Cold Harbor, walked into the U. S. Shipping Commissioner's office to contradict the official report of his death. He had somehow been spotted by the crew of the British freighter Maidenhead after swimming out the gale for two days...
...their chance. Edith's pet cat died, and circumstantial evidence pointed to Herbert Mercer Stretch of The Twigs (now Applewood), as the killer. On April 12, 1934 Mr. & Mrs. Sim waited in their car until they saw Mr. & Mrs. Stretch depart for a day's shopping in Maidenhead. Then Mr. Sim crept...
Without money, without luggage, still in her cap & apron, Edith the General was whisked in the car to Mrs. Sim's father-in-law's house at Maidenhead...