GREAT BRITAIN: Work for Wales

Eight hours, plus four hours overtime every day last week was the stint of brawny fellows toiling with haste and mighty thwacking in the wing of St. James's Palace called "York House," famed bachelor quarters of Edward of Wales.

Definitely His Royal Highness is preparing for indefinite bachelorhood. He has refused to move into huge, regal Marlborough House (TIME, Dec. 21, 1925), especially renovated at large public expense for no other purpose than to accommodate a Prince & Princess of Wales. Last week at his own expense the occupant of York House started...

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