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In the field such of pure speculation, frankly offered as much Hayelock Ellis, Britain's foremost learned commentator on sex, was the following limited press interview: "I have always had the opinion, due to Edwards's quite boyish appearance, that he is in some way different from most other men, but not in any way known to me. But to me it is obvious. A man slightly different from most men—and I think that is a reasonable assumption in his case—has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII "not necessarily in a pathological sense or anything like that"—appeared to consider him simply as The Boy Who Didn't Grow Up and Mrs. Simpson as the Mother.
In Austria, press cameramen assigned to the Boy addressed him as such in the following note, according to Associated Press: "Eddie, we want to be with our wives and children by Christmas, but we cannot leave until you come out of your hole." This ruse brought the Boy out of his hole to pose briefly. From London, the horrified Government took telephonic steps to persuade the Boy not to be so Christmas-minded as to agree to issue daily bulletins about himself, an idea the Boy had broached, according to correspondents, so that they could all lgo to their wives & children.
The attitude of His Majesty's Government, and of a few correspondents who said they would have to stay anyhow, apparently condemned the Duke of Windsor to remain through the holidays clam mouthed and encircled by a whole corps of journalistic clamdiggers.