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...next week, BBC announced a TV show that any sponsor would give his eyeteeth to have. Its star-if she turns up: ginger-haired, hazel-eyed Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII. Since she was beheaded in 1542, Catherine has wandered each night about her former bedchamber in Hampton Court Palace, has become one of the most celebrated ghosts in all England. While waiting hopefully for her to appear, a BBC mobile unit will televise the Queen's treasured possessions...
Briskly he passes on to another Ayot tourist attraction, the house of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII...
...dress rehearsal, the veteran baritone brooded and flapped over his flock like a mother hen. When 34-year-old Baritone James (Figaro, Don Giovanni) Pease showed up in his Hans Sachs costumes "looking like a sick Henry VIII," Schorr dug out his own 25-year-old costumes, insisted Pease wear them instead...
...London's weekly Picture goer, British Actor Rex ("Henry VIII") Harrison told his countrymen what life is like in Hollywood: "The whole thing is too big, too impersonal . . . Domestic servants are fantastically expensive and are a lordly race, indeed. I was amused and amazed . . . when couples we employed arrived in magnificent Cadillacs...
...Edward VIII had hardly been proclaimed King (with Wallis at his side at St. James's Palace as heralds boomed out the tidings) before he realized that "the King business" had its drawbacks. Item: he could not even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from those who thought a king should not get his feet wet. There were more important drawbacks. He had his first foreboding interviews about Mrs. Simpson with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Windsor lifts the curtain on the intrigue-packed scenes when Baldwin tells Edward that...