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...went home and a few days later suddenly, like his brother before him, was called to Paradise. A "doctor" said he died of heart disease, but speculation was rife as to the cause of his opportune death. Opportune it was for Princess Dayang Dayang because Sultan Wasit, like Edward VIII, had not yet been crowned, and not having been crowned, his son, Ismale, had neither the formal title of crown prince nor a clear right of succession. Thus Dayang Dayang had another chance at the throne...
From the West Indies last week the greatest living Welshman, David Lloyd George, cabled home an apology that he was unable to be in South Wales with Edward VIII "on the King's errand of mercy...
...actual proposals and specific complaints drafted by leaders of the masses-such as shop councils and aldermanic bodies of depression-stricken towns. These hoped last week that the now 42-year-old King would give them repeated and serious audience on his tour and they were disappointed, for Edward VIII continued to play the light role of Der King Charming-as His Majesty was dubbed by newsorgans in Vienna...
...everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...
...Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported to have laid before members of the Central Council of the Mothers Union a proposal that Bachelor Edward VIII be waked upon by delegations of British Mothers who will "implore His Majesty to do nothing which could be construed as weakening the moral fibre of the British nation...