The Archive · 1938

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London Letter

By Ouve Dux London, Nov. 30. work and electric trains are an un-them must remember what children'

The news that Mr. Chamberlain when in Paris visited the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and told them that there was no legal or. other reason why they should not come to England (one assumes for the sake of, argument, though perhaps rashly, that the Prime Minister did say this) has set everyone talking. The difficulty is the question of ihe title "Her Royal Highness" for the Duchess. It is. said that the Duke and those about him. always speak of.her in this form. But itis perfectly clear that she would not be allowed to use it in England. The Kings declaration, efter the abdication, stated unequivocally that, while the Duke remained a Royal Highness, neither nis wife nor children, if any, would enjoy that title. So if the Duke and Duchess of Windsor returned to England she would merely take iunk as what Queen Victoria once Gescribed as "a common duchess, On the whole one does not think they will come and most people will feel they had better not. There is still much affection in England for the Duke. It is rumoured that ibere is even a party of new legitimists, who dream of somehow getting him back to the throne, though how it beats ordinary wit io imagine. Yet undoubtedly the general feeling was for once accumntely if brutally summed up by Mr, Herbert Morrison when he said that "Kings who abdicate have only two alternatives—to make a nuisance of themselves, or to disappear."

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