DUKE OF WINDSOR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 5

DUKE OF WINDSOR

Settlement of £lOO,OOO on Mrs. Simpson. Londlon, March 28. Th© Duke of Windsor, according to the Paris correspondent of the Sunday Referee, lias, settled £lOO,OOO on Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Beyond the income from this amount, the cqrrespondent adds, Mrs. Simpson does not possess any private means. Mr. Herman Rogers denies that Mrs. Simpson, who ivVas his guest at Cannes for three months, has leased the Villa Rosa, on the shores of Lake Como. George V’s chef, M. Poupart, who retired to Vichy when Edward VIII feucceeded to the Throne, will resume duty at Buckingham Palace on April 1. M. Legros, whom Edward appointed his chef, will shortly return to France. He 'V’as at one time chef at the Chateau Cande, where Mrs. Simp son is now staying, and it is. l thought that he' may re-enter the Duke of Windsor’s service DUKE BUYS A PIPE. Visit to Imperial Villa. London, March 31. It was ,a great day for pretty little Mizzi Pfaller, a dressmaker, who wears her hair in long braids round her head, when the Duke arrived at the Haus Appesbach, in St. Wolfgang. She is being married in traditional peasant style, and, according to custom, will send an envoy to the house inviting its master to the wedding. The Daily Mail says the Duke spent two hours on a visit to the former Imperial villa at Ischl, which he last visited in 1935, with a party which included Mrs. Simpson. He signed the visitors’ book “Edward Herzog von Windsor.” After examining the long wooden peasant pipes in the Emperor’s study, the Duke visited a little shop in the town and bought a pipe. When he asked how he should clean it, he was instructed to use a long feather. A fire broke out to-day in the -woods round the Chateau de Conde, near Tours, where Mrs. Simpson is staying. It is estimated that 20,000 fir trees were burned.