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...lady presented to the King curtsies. A gentleman presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador...
...After a private audience with the King, the Comrade said of Edward VIII: "He asked me why we had to have a revolution in Russia, and I explained. He then asked why we had to execute the Tsar and I explained why. He impressed me as a mediocre young Englishman who reads one newspaper...
...Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...
...numbers of his friends. Various stars and orders were handed by George VI to such people as the captain of the yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect to serve the Duke of Windsor, London newspapers printed that he has retained under George VI his Edward-invented rank, "Captain of the King's Flight," but in listing him last week...
When Edward VIII was called "England's Most Eligible Bachelor" there was perhaps no second, but last week Norfolk was "England's Most Eligible Bachelor," and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin went to his wedding with matronly feelings duplicated outside the church by Englishwomen so enthusiastic that some, striving for a better view, staged a sit-down strike in the middle of the street until lifted aside by courteous Bobbies. Partly because the Protestant bride has not yet become Catholic (as both families expect she will) and partly because nothing could add lustre to a wedding so entirely aristocratic...