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...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...
...Scrapbook of 1936 came a recording of the soft, hesitant voice with the stirring plea: "I have found it impossible ... to discharge my duties as King . . . without the help and support of the woman I love ..." Millions listened to the abdication speech of Edward VIII, rebroadcast in England for the first time, as the Duke of Windsor danced away the evening with the woman he loved in a Manhattan nightspot...
...Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps in the Battle of the Bulge, is now president of Louisiana State University...
...described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded by Edward VIII, censorship was finally lifted). In the U.S. there were no objections. Victoria Regina, starring Helen Hayes, ran for 604 performances on Broadway...
Bertie himself, his diary recorded, "broke down & sobbed like a child." The time was 1936, and King Edward VIII (David to his family) was about to abdicate in order to marry Mrs. Simpson. Until that time Bertie, Duke of York, had been happy to play second fiddle to a one-man band. His biographer, Oxford Don John Wheeler-Bennett, records his "agony of apprehension" lest he should become King. When the worst happened ("Led," wrote poor Bertie of himself, "like the proverbial 'sheep to the slaughter' "), and he was indeed King George VI, he said to his cousin...