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...other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence to the strict principles of constitutional government and my resolve to work...
...messages of congratulation to British near-centenarians which will be delivered on the 100th birthday of each. His Majesty commanded that his own 41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
Dignity, like the Imperial mantle which is placed upon England's King at his Coronation, clothed Edward VIII and his every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master...
...great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria, he established himself high on a crag 25 mi. from Vienna at the castle of Baron Eugene Rothschild...
...King's first Sunday away from England, the Archbishop of Canterbury broadcast: "A new morning has dawned. . . . Yet let there be no boasting in our pride!" The proud Primate went on to describe the Duke of Windsor as "alien," called him as though already dead "our late King," denounced his "craving for private happiness" and referred to the present War Secretary of Great Britain, Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper and other close intimates of Edward VIII, thus: "Let those who belong in this circle know that today they stand rebuked...