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...quitting England to cruise Balkan waters on the chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin last week. His Majesty resorted not only to the usual incognito of going as "the Duke of Lancaster" but to unusual secrecy. His subjects had understood that he would leave from his royal airdrome at Windsor Great Park, gathered there in genial numbers to wish him Godspeed. Instead the King motored to a nearby private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain...
...chartered royal yacht Nahlin left England for the Adriatic last week with her master Captain Doyle instructed that only after sailing would he be told by the Admiralty House radio from Whitehall in what Balkan port to pick up Edward VIII...
Since all the Nahlin's regular staterooms are on lower decks and likely to be hot, the walnut furniture of the top-deck library was lugged out and walnut bedroom furniture, bought at Southampton, lugged in. After one look at the large walnut bed in which His Majesty was expected to sleep, a trusted aide condemned it as "too formal," sent it back and had an informal little number rushed aboard at the last moment. According to the Nahlin's proud owner, "Britain's Richest Widow" Lady Yule: "She is the most beautiful yacht in the world...
...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
Arriving in Southampton for a surprise inspection visit to the Nahlin, King Edward watched cases of champagne, Scotch, soda, lime squash and lemon squash being carried aboard. Royal china and plate from the King's own steam yacht Victoria & Albert will be used on the Nahlin. After a brisk look around His Majesty ordered extra beds set up in the library...