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Murmured the Duke, who has his own terse way of putting things, "Must go to Buck House." Next morning His Grace, swinging a tightly rolled umbrella, arrived at Buckingham Palace to ascertain from his friend Edward VIII the royal pleasure as to what route the Coronation procession will take...
...Palace officials said that Queen Mary, peeping unobserved from behind a Buckingham window curtain last week, shed tears of motherly joy as 5,000 Canadian War veterans demonstrated in extraordinary fashion their deep affection for her son Edward VIII...
...Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN WITH THE FENIAN KING...
King Henry VIII suffered from syphilis which he gave to at least four of his six wives. No. 3, Jane Seymour, mother of puny Edward VI, "died before any such misfortune could befall her." No. 4, ugly Anne of Cleves, escaped because "the marriage was never consummated." Diagnostician Kemble argues that Henry divorced and executed his wives simply in hopes of siring a male heir. . . . "He died primarily from heart failure. Just as his life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry...
...first time since his accession, Edward VIII left Britain this week to inaugurate the $1,000,000 War memorial to 60,000 Canadian War dead at Vimy Ridge. The King crossed the Channel on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress escorted by a Canadian and a French destroyer. With utmost solemnity 20,000 persons witnessed the ceremony, heard an exchange of friendly and feeling speeches by King Edward and President Lebrun of France...