¶Expecting to occupy the Royal Box, there arrived at the Covent Garden Royal Opera one night last week dashing Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of the venerable Duke of Connaught who is the only surviving son of Queen Victoria. After a whispered altercation with opera flunkies who insisted, "There is some misunderstanding, Your Highness," Prince Arthur and his visibly vexed party were shown into an ordinary box. Reason: although Mrs. Simpson was seated unobtrusively in the shadowed rear of the Royal Box, she was none the less occupying it, in the absence of King...
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