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...India to Alexandria, and H. M. S. Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk to Buckingham Palace for a long, friendly talk. To see King Farouk off on the boat train went the Duke of Kent and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...Edward VIII's huge properties as Britain's King were last week pouring income into the British Treasury at the rate of some $6,500,000 a year. Out of this fund the British Government annually pays its King and his family a set sum, under a contract first made by insane George III and regularly renewed by Act of Parliament. Last week the new Civil List for King Edward was submitted to the House of Commons. Smaller than that of his father by $300,000, it totaled only $2,050,000, leaving the Government...
...kept by the Keeper of the Privy Purse until King Edward marries. The other was the hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual $125,000, to start accumulating at once. Thus, even if Edward VIII marries within the year, the next Prince of Wales on his 21st birthday would step into a fortune of at least $3,000,000, in addition to his income from the Duchy of Cornwall...
...personal physician of King Edward VIII, Thomas Jeeves (''Tommy") Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford, steaming into New York Harbor last week, watched U. S. Public Health physicians scrutinize passengers' wrists for early signs of smallpox. Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute...
...speaking his mind to ship-news reporters. That self-reliant Briton, who repeatedly has said that "doctors get mighty little prestige without publicity," refused to be shushed, motioned Dr. Sondern to keep quiet, lit a new briar pipe, declared: "It can be said with every emphasis that [King Edward VIII] is in good health. He keeps himself fit, wants very little doctoring and takes so much exercise that sometimes he has to be restrained a little. He flies very little now, because he's very aware of the big responsibilities attached to his office...