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...avoid Edward VIII's being called King of Canada, King of New Zealand, King of Ireland, etc., his title is ingeniously compressed and arranged backward.* Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned...
Further to please Queen Mary, Baron Dawson of Penn, the physician who pulled George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
King Edward on his 42nd birthday morn looked out on a London in which almost every one of his male subjects wore a daisy, buttercup, pansy or garden rose in his buttonhole to honor His Majesty. These simple flowers were worn by Edward VIII's express wish that his birthday should not become a "florists' racket." It was more correct to wear a posy plucked in one's own garden than the costliest gardenia...
...Dame Grand Cross, the King turned from official birthdaying to celebrate in the intimate circle of his friends. Dinner was at St. James's Palace, but this time there was no announcement in the Court Circular (TIME, June 8) of those who supped and sipped with Edward VIII...
Aging Actress Maxine Elliott, 63, friend of the late King Edward VII, whose villa on the French Riviera was nicknamed "The House of Lords," had it house-cleaned to entertain members of the suite of King Edward VIII, His Majesty now intending to spend August next door in the villa of Lord Cholmondeley (pronounced "Chumly...