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Writer |
Description |
| COVER PHOTO/STORY: ONLY A KINGDOM A musical play about Wallis & Edward, with book, music and lyrics by Society member Judith Shubow Steir. |
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Color photograph of a Wallis Simpson (played by Kaitlin Hopkins) and the Prince of Wales (played by Stan Chandler) Photo from From the 1998 Pasadena Playhouse Production of "Only A Kingdom". © Craig Schwartz, Photography 1998. |
| Editor's Column |
Mark Gaulding (CA) |
A review of this issue as well as topical commentary on current stories that are in the headlines. |
| COVER ARTICLE: ONLY A KINGDOM |
by Mark Gaulding (CA) and Carla Tourin (MN) |
A musical play with book, lyrics and music by Society member Judith Shubow Steir (NY) |
| A WE FRIEND REMEMBERED: DOROTHY DEAN |
Eve Roberts (UK) |
Member Eve Roberts remembers Dorothy Dean, a former La Croe and Boulevard Suchet housemaid, who died in 2004 |
| WE EXCERPTS: Memoirs of A Ghille by Gregor Mackenzie |
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Excerpt about Mrs. Simpson |
| WE encounters: A 1957 signed Duke & Duchess of Windsor photograph and related ephemera is for sale |
Joan Pearson |
Joan Pearson shares with us the encounter her father had with Wallis & Edward aboard the SS United States when he sailed to Europe. |
| POSTSCRIPT: An Important Prince of Wales painting is SOLD in New York |
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A follow up report about the sale of the painting that was featured in the Society's last issue by Artist Howard Chandler Christy's 1923 portrait of a young Edward, Prince of Wales. |
| Society Member News |
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Features new members, highlights from upcoming issues, highlights from previous issues. |
| Duke & Duchess of Windsor Society: Member Profile |
Phil Dearing (CA) |
An interview with Society Member Phil Dearing |
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| WE: biblio-wise: Two new WE-related books are currently underway. |
Mark Gaulding (CA) |
Society member Peter Kurth (VT) is writing a new account of the Sir Harry Oakes murder which involved Peter's uncle. Also new Society member Edwin Warfield IV (MD) is penning a history of his esteemed family the Warfield's of Maryland |
| WE: biblio-wise: Two recently published WE related books are reviewed |
Lee Levine (DC) |
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson and The Duff Cooper Diaries |
| WE: cuisine-wise--Biscuits, Caviar & Cocktails |
June Gaulding (CA) |
June brings us a recipe from In Vogue: 75 Years of Style by Georgina Howell |
| WE Sightings |
Society Members |
Includes Wallis & Edward excerpts from Baltimore Magazine, Saveur Magazine, The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Times, Financial Times, and Vanity Fair. Lee Levine also brings a message from Edward VIII official biographer, Philip Ziegler, to Society members<\b>. |
| ebay auction sightings |
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A comprehensive review of recent ebay auction results for Duke & Duchess of Windsor-related items. |