"Loved a Lady"

Britons, many of whom did not approve of their last King, still find it hard to forget him.

P: In Cannes, France, last week the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, both members of the Privy Council of King George VI, called and paid their respects to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Just before the Windsors returned this week to Paris, oldtime Actress Maxine Elliot (who two years ago rented her Hollywoodesque villa at Cannes to King Edward VIII for a holiday with Mrs. Simpson) entertained at dinner Privy Councilors Lloyd George & Churchill and the Duke & Duchess.

P: In Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place!"

Two days later Miss Stovell wrathfully tacked up three pictures of the Duke & Duchess, received world-wide publicity except in Bermuda, where no paper deigned to touch the story. Said she: "I don't know how I had the nerve to chase the Bishop home and demand an explanation. But I was so mad!"

Next day Bermuda papers, which up to this time had suppressed completely a story that was being printed all over the world, had to carry it at last when the Bishop of Bermuda came out with a statement publicly castigating himself: "The Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse which he ought to have known better how to control, he so far forgot himself. . . . He realizes that he had no right whatever to take this arbitrary action. ... If this protest was needed, there is no possible excuse for the manner in which it was made, particularly by one who might be expected to set an example of orderly and seemly behavior, and the Bishop can only say that he blames himself as severely as any other person can blame him."

P: Another British bishop believed by his flock to be blaming himself into something like nervous prostration over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week he was expected to enter a sanatorium, feeling that but for his sermon Edward might still be King.

P: London bookstores last week offered the first account of the Abdication written for tiny tots, Kings and Things by H. E. Marshall: "King Edward loved a lady and wanted to marry her . . . but a whole lot of people all over the Empire didn't like her much and didn't want her to be Queen.

" 'Very well,' said King Edward. 'You don't like my lady, but I do. ... So I'll go away and not be your King any more. But you needn't be sad or sorry about it, because I have a Very Nice Brother who will make a Very Good King! . . .' So now he isn't called His Majesty Edward any more but His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor."

P: Reports that the Duchess is with child were officially described by the Duke's equerry as "entirely without foundation."

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