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Cameraddicts and philatelists among TIMErs ,will be interested to know that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England...
...King Edward VIII conferred upon his vacation host, King George II of Greece, last week the Order of Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George...
...Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman with her diamond rings pulls that man around by her apron strings...
...name Holbein in the Anglo-Saxon world immediately suggests the chunky, bearded younger Hans, favorite portraitist of Henry VIII and immortalizer of Tudor aristocracy. Actually there were four famed German Holbeins: Hans the father, Uncle Sigismund, Brothers Hans and Ambrosius. All of them were famed painters, would have left a deep mark on the history of painting if young Hans had never thought of going to England...
This week the Fine Arts is showing a film well worth seeing "Nine Days A Queen" does not equal "Henry VIII" but it is in the same tradition. The story centers about the struggle for power among the nobility after the demise of Henry VIII, with the highest lords of the realm backing successors to the throne...