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R.C.W. WESTON Windsor, England...
...listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John V. Lindsay...
...final hours, the duke was haunted by the realization that all too soon he would no longer be around to shield her. He was right: 17 months after his death, the widow of Windsor, 77, is a bored, lonely and sometimes ailing woman. The duchess continues her usual rounds of the couturiers, hairdressers and restaurants. But more and more she spends her dwindling evening hours with a detective story or TV. She reads the newspapers, French and English, from front to back. ("It is a bombshell world," she says, "full of violence and horror. I no longer understand or like...
...value, which is probably well in excess of $10 million. This does not include the silver services and objets d'art, the superb porcelains, the furniture and paintings. Nor does it take into account such historic treasures as the desk from which he delivered his abdication speech at Windsor Castle...
...chosen her tombstone-cream-colored Welsh marble-to match the duke's. She has even settled on the inscription: "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor." One day her stone will be placed alongside his under a wide-spreading plane tree on the lawn at Frogmore in Windsor Park, where the bodies of Victoria and Albert also lie. In life, the royal family would not receive Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson. One day she will be among them forever...