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Duchess a lady of great charm

... Duchess a lady of great charm As a former regular in the RAF (1935-1945), I heard the news of the death of the Duchess of Windsor with tremendous sentimental memories. I first met the Duke and Duchess at Christmas, 1942, and on many occasions attended ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MONDAY

... statistics for the Third World. Edward and Mrs Simpson (ITV), 9pm and 10.30 pm: Following the death last month of the Duchess of Windsor, ITV repeats its award winning reconstruction of the royal romance that led to the abdication of King Edward VIII. The ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1986
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Rushcliffe Road, Hucknall. DUKE MADE HIS OWN CHOICE

... Rushcliffe Road, Hucknall. DUKE MADE HIS OWN CHOICE WITH THE passing of the Duchess of Windsor, another piece of history moves forward. The late Duke of Windsor and the Duchess were a couple very devoted to each other. The Prime Minister at wales coming ...

Published: Friday 09 May 1986
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Duchess ‘in funeral row’

... Duchess ‘in funeral row’ The Duchess of Windsor reportedly argued with the Archbishop of Canterbury on the day of her husband’s funeral. ¥ She demanded the removal of a hedge that blocked her burial plot at Windsor Castle, says her friend, the Countess ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

What cheek!

... What cheek! WITH the death of the Duchess of Windsor and the fascinating revival of interest in the late Duke’s local connections, this seems the right time to highlight a small matter of very bad taste. The late Colonel Sir Frederick Stern, who created ...

Published: Friday 30 May 1986
Newspaper: Worthing Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Windsor 1 Worthing 0: by RICHARD AMEY

... players, and makeshift Rebels, coping with Windsor’s 14 corners, had enough of the game to deserve a point. But in the end, like the royals in the castle down the road, who that afternoon buried the Duchess of Windsor, Worthing fans continued their mourning ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1986
Newspaper: Worthing Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Queues to see Wallis’s grave

... day filed steadily past the last reotingh place of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor. It was the first time her grave, two weeks old, had been seen by the public. Frogmore, in the Erounds of Windsor astle, is only open one or two days each year. The grave is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Duchess leaves fortune to French charities

... Duchess leaves fortune to French charities The Duchess of Windsor, the American-born divorcee for whom a king gave up his throne, has gfiown her gratitude for her welcome in France during her exile there by leaving most of her fortune to French charities ...

Published: Friday 02 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Royals so kind to old duchess — footman

... Royals so kind to old duchess — footman A former first footman to the Duchess of Windsor is to tell in a forthcoming book how good members of the Royal Family were to her in her widowhood and declining years in Paris. R e ahJoe:’e Elagouna, who served ...

Published: Monday 05 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

LOOK HEAR'

... LOOK HEAR' HATS OFF . . . Bernie Winters, Ernie Wise and Windsor Davies join a host of stars in ‘A Tribute to Dickie Henderson OBE on ITV tonight (8.0). The line-up on stage at the Royalty Theatre in London, in aid of the Stars Organisation for Spastics ...

Published: Monday 05 May 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tragic wish of King’s love

... the twice-divorced American. Mr Michael Bloch, the author who had had. the unique task of compiling the book from the Duchess of Windsor's personal letters, today described it as the only one “of importance” left out. It is a passionate letter in which ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 24 | Tags: none