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...Banker John Anderson, friend and confidant of Sir Harry's, took the reporters on an excursion to Hog Island to admire Shangri-La, the fabulous estate of Swedish tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren. U.S. and British black listings keep this nimble friend of Millionaires Hermann Goring, the Duke of Windsor, Sir Harry Oakes and many another in Mexico for the duration, but the reporters found 17 gardeners tirelessly pushing back the lush jungle growth, awaiting the end of the war and the master's return. One or two reporters wondered whether the excursion had a meaning...
...Duke and Duchess of Windsor were still around, seven weeks after they had arrived in the U.S. to see how the Duchess' ailing Aunt Bessie was doing up in Boston (she was doing all right). At Yale the Duke reviewed cadets, autographed a biography of Victoria. Few nights later he and the Duchess were in Manhattan, nightclubbing...
Every morning for 25 years (1870-95) a solemn, bearded man in frock coat, droopy trousers and elastic-sided boots opened Queen Victoria's mail. General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was the Widow of Windsor's Private Secretary. Over the years, in daily letters to his wife and in countless jottings, Ponsonby charted the awesome complexities of his job. Out of this mass of papers his son, Arthur (Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede), a onetime page at the Queen's court (see cut), has contrived a book which is both a biography of his father and a candid...
Black Is Grey. "Women are easily managed in these things," confided the canny Dean of Windsor, "by a little humouring and caution without any departure from truthfulness." Ponsonby learned that anyone who contradicted the Queen was "never given a second opportunity." When she said black was white, as she frequently did, Ponsonby agreed (with reservations), but reached a delicate compromise on grey. When she wrote that Mr. Gladstone was a "half-crazy ... deluded . . . excited . . . ridiculous . . . wild . . . fanatical old man," Ponsonby communicated her views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When...
...filled with the endless routine of court problems, royal disapproval and viewing-with-alarm. "The Queen would be grateful," he wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole...