DUKE'S ENGAGEMENT
To Be Announced by King SLANDER ACTION HEARING (Received 17, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Sunday Referee says that the en®ageinent of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Warfield will be announced by the King in the Loudon Gazette probably ou May 20. This will oe only in conformity with the eustom under which all marriages of members of the Royal Family must be forinajly approved by his Majesty. It is aid that the Simpson-Suther-land actiou for alleged slander, removed from the Easter tenn., is expected to be heard during the first week in June.
The Daily Telegraph's Tours correspondent says : It is officially stated at the Chateau de Cande that there is no foundation to the report that the King has been requested to sanction the Duke of Windsor's marriage to Mrs Warfield It is also denied that Queen Mary has asked the Duke to return to Euglaiid after tlie wedding and reside at Fort Belvedere. Mr Herman Rogers, asked \vhether the Duke of Kent would attend the wedding, said that the invitations had not been issued It is understood that the King and •hieen Mary will be represented, but it ' is uneei'taiu whether members of the Royal Family will represent them.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 7
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