Fortnight ago, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor arrived quietly in London, went straight to Lord Dudley's tranquil Ednam Lodge estate near Windsor. The unrelenting royal family had sanctioned their visit only if there was a minimum of publicity and display.
To pacify insistent newsmen, they agreed to meet a few top correspondents at a small Mayfair cocktail party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit...
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