FRANCE: Edward Windsor

Happening to be named Edward Windsor and having nice eyes set in haggard sockets, a nonchalant young Briton some weeks ago put up at a flattered Paris hotel, showed his passport and began running up right royal bills. Presently sued for "fraud" by the proprietors, the bright Briton was cleared of this aspersion on the name of Windsor last week when the strict French court ruled there had been no fraud "because Mr. Windsor never told or gave the hotel management to understand he was the former King."

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