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...hastily drawn bill was afterward said by Dublin lawyers to have two interesting though unintended features: 1) if the Dail is ever dissolved there appears to be no legal provision for it ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...
...Simpson before she bolted from Britain to France (TIME, Dec. 14), and in Mayfair dowagers in recent months have said they recognized on Mrs. Simpson the same royal jewelry which lavish King Edward VII bought for his beauteous Queen Alexandra and which she bequeathed to her favorite grandson Edward VIII with the admonition (which probably has no force in law): "For your future queen, David dear...
...granting of a divorce in which the "innocent party" (Mrs. Simpson) can be shown to be also adulterous, was much embarrassed last week. Not only had one of the richest women in Britain instructed her lawyers to badger the King's Proctor, but a discharged servant of Edward VIII was said to be not only willing but anxious to have "revenge" upon his former employer by testifying as to whether or not Mrs. Simpson had always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent...
...word Mrs. Simpson had much less reason to be unhappy than it was dignified to suppose. Most of the stories about her "weeping" at Cannes were just so much Lord-in-Waiting. In her London circle she has the reputation of holding Edward VIII by her wisecracking, hard gaiety in the most adverse or intimate situations. He has carried fairly heavy pieces of her luggage in railway stations. She has called him "Boysy" to his face in brilliant London ballrooms, spoken of him to their British hostess as "the little man" when he was King and Emperor, kept him waiting...
Love in Exile (Gaumont-British) would greatly interest England's onetime King Edward VIII, for it begins at the point which his career has just reached (see p. 15). Opening scene shows King Regis VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicating the throne of an unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet...