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...such exception: the House of Lords, where Philip will still rank below the other Royal Dukes, Cornwall (his son), Gloucester, Windsor and Kent...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
...Madame Chiang Kai-shek flew from her temporary home in Formosa to Honolulu for treatment of neurodermatitis, a nervous condition which causes severe itching. "Very tired and weak," she retired to the home of her sister Mme. H. H. Kung until hospital accommodations could be arranged. The Duke of Windsor was recovering in Montecatini, Italy, from a "slight attack of indigestion" diagnosed by his doctor as the result of "too many invitations in this heat." He was ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats and vegetables (thoroughly boiled) and stewed...
...that her sister Princess Margaret might one day be married. A committee of 22 members from all parties was set up in the House of Commons to consider the Queen's request and draw up the list. One name which would not appear on it: the Duke of Windsor, whose present allowance (an estimated $70,000 a year) came out of the pocket of his brother George...
...broadcast from London, on the eve of the Duke of Windsor's arrival, Lord Beaverbrook recalled some background on the abdication of the ex-King. When the duke arrived in France in 1936, Beaverbrook recalled, he said, "I always thought I could get away with a morganatic marriage." Obviously, said Beaverbrook, "it had been his intention to barter the threat of abdication against government acknowledgment of the morganatic marriage. The game was played to the end, and the Times and Mr. [Stanley] Baldwin won the last trick...