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...Prince Edward of Kent, 6th in line of succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge...
...those stately lectures which high British officials now and then condescend to give to an irreproachable organ like the New York Times was scrupulously mirrored in its pages last week: "With thrones toppling in Europe or being in subjugation to a dictatorship, it was the opinion of advisers to the throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship...
...Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just as his five years as Viceroy were up, a misfortune which has more than once occurred...
...cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet. All this might have fallen flat, but the new Viceroy, after taking the oath in Durbar Hall-where new Emperor Edward VIII has the pleasure in store of sitting on India's golden Throne (see cut, p. 22)- the Marquess of Linlithgow made a radio broadcast which can be compared in its surprising effect only to the "fireside talks" with which friendly "Frank"' Roosevelt kindled nationwide acclaim in his first few weeks as President...
Died. Prince Alfonso Carlos Fernando José Juan Pío de Borbón y Austria-Este, 87, since 1931 the eccentric Carlist pretender to the non-existent Spanish throne, who led 14,000 troops in the last Carlist fight (1873-76) against the legitimate Bourbon monarchy; of injuries received when struck by an automobile; in Vienna. To run his shabby Vienna palace he kept a single uniformed doorman, adopted a Negro girl...