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...difficult to find,* and with great perspicacity they took advantage of the fact that one day last week he would naturally spend at Buckingham Palace, the day on which Mrs. Simpson had to be alone at Ipswich to get her divorce. Shoals of British dignitaries had audience of Edward VIII that day, the Court Circular released next morning was one of the longest of his reign, and the Court staff congratulated themselves on a good job. It was next the duty of His Majesty to prorogue Parliament after its short session last week and reopen it again this week, each...
Before there were even rumors in the United Kingdom that Edward VIII might marry Mrs. Simpson, His Majesty last spring obtained from the House of Commons the passage of a bill under which his spouse will receive $200,000 per year. In what was considered an allusion by the King to this, the Speech from the Throne declared: "Members of the House of Commons, I thank you for the arrangements you have made for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the Crown...
...Within a few days Mrs. Ernest Simpson, of Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., will obtain her divorce decree in England, and some eight months thereafter she will be married to Edward VIII, King of England...
...clear reason this suppression did not operate against U. S. newspapers which arrived screaming the same facts under banner headlines and were sold last week on the bookstalls of famed W. H. Smith & Sons. Apt was a Chicago Tribune front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story in the world...
...years Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and now Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward, recently conferred at length with Mr. Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story to rank with some of the achievements of Mr. Hearst's only real rival in U. S. publisher-reporting, Roy Wilson Howard. This dispatch, couched in a style almost...