GREAT BRITAIN: Mary, the Queen-Mother

Monday, Dec. 21, 1936

With a new Queen Elizabeth now on the Throne-Chair next to the Throne, it was necessarily made official last week that Queen Mary is now "Mary, the Queen-Mother."

Never did "Queen Mary" feel it commensurate with her status to deny anything publicly, but last week "Mary, the Queen-Mother" officially denied from her home, Marlborough House, that during the year 1936 she ever saw or by any means conversed with Mrs. Simpson.*

Unofficially it was said at Marlborough House that there can be no harm in recording the following remarks on Nov. 16:

King Edward: "I am going to marry Mrs. Simpson and when I do, you will have to receive her."

Queen Mary: "Oh I shall, shall I? Well, we shall see about that."

* By inserting "1936," Her Majesty was graciously pleased to let stand the fact that she beheld Mrs. Simpson when that wife was presented at Court in 1931, and that, after Edward of Wales had been strictly refused permission to bring Mrs. Simpson to the Jubilee Ball of King George, he brought and danced with her before his parents in 1935.

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