Every train and plane from the Balkans brought to Britain last week pictures of King Edward looking really happy for the first time since he came to the Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American."...
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