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...titillating voice told of "cinemactresses," or "great and good friends" (TIME code for lovers) or other uber-brat coinages. When Wallis Warfield Simpson, having lured Edward VIII from the throne of England, was named TIME's Woman of the Year for 1936--a year in which Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao were all on the march and F.D.R. was elected in a landslide to a second term--TIME the titillator delivered this quote: "'My, my!' sighed [Argentine] Ambassador [Felipe] Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, 'who would ever have dreamed that our Little Wallis would ever be where...
...that English royal dynasty, now extinct, excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self-interested attempt to raise himself above the prying eyes...
...that he has any intention of giving it up." Even if he wanted to turn the throne over to William, the choice of succession is not his to make. Parliament would have to agree to allow Charles to leave, then pick a new King--as it did when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936--and that could throw the entire idea of monarchy open to official, and perhaps fatally rancorous, debate...
...long marquee in Highgrove's meticulously tended gardens. Everyone was happy except perhaps the local vicar, who pointed out to the BBC a few days before the festivities that Charles as King would be an inappropriate Defender of the Faith if he continued to commit adultery. Didn't Henry VIII have this problem...
...game-show hosts and Playboy bunnies, at the annual gathering of TV execs. Prince Edward--or ED WINDSOR, as he prefers to be known in the biz--sold a series of documentaries by his Ardent Productions to CBS, including Edward on Edward, a show about his great uncle, Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry an American. The Windsors' revenge...