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...second time since his accession, Edward VIII flew last week, this time to pay a last minute visit to the Queen Mary before her maiden voyage (see col. 3). At the controls was his longtime personal pilot, unassuming Flight Lieutenant Edward H. Fielden. Queen Mary and other members of the royal family had come down by train, were already at the quay-side as King Edward's plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded...
...French Government announced last week that Edward VIII will make his first official visit to foreign soil on July 26 when he goes to Vimy Ridge to unveil two vast pylons designed by Canadian Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...
...Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last year. He loyally entitled this commonplace job The Heart of the Empire. Others portrayed King George riding, the Duke of York, the Duchess of York, their two little princesses. By royal command there was no portrait of Edward VIII...
...bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...
...Duchy of Cornwall, Britain's southwesternmost point of land, was given in 1337 by Edward III to his beloved warrior son, the Black Prince Edward, and to the Black Prince's "heirs, the first-begotten sons of the kings of England." Having no first-begotten son, Edward VIII will administer the Duchy as heretofore. Furthermore, as King, he no longer pays the income tax of $215,000 a year on this property, since his late father contracted with the Government to pay for the visits of foreign royalties in return for tax exemption...