GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jan. 29, 1934

¶ Eager to embrace the middle-aged man who says he is George V's natural nephew (TIME, Dec. 25), a bevy of fashionably dressed English women turned up in London's famed Old Bailey last week and were kissed in impartial rotation by Prisoner Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon before he entered the dock.

"His mother thought she had been secretly married in India to the Duke of Clarence [George V's late elder brother]." explained Defense Lawyer Lloyd Jones. "Indeed I believe she was imprisoned in India during the visit of King George, then Prince...

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