DUCHESS OF WINDSOR

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 3

DUCHESS OF WINDSOR

TO HAVE FACE LIFTED “If the Duchess is going to have her face lifted, the operation, if successful, will revolutionise her whole appearance and makp her look years younger,” said a leading Sydney surgeon, with a knowledge of plastic surgery. He was commenting on the statement that the Duchess of Windsor has engaged six nurses and the noted plastic surgeon, Dr. I. Daniel Shorell. for |an operation at Wickersham Hospital, New York. “The cable message, however, states that the Duchess is simply going to have moles removed from her

face,” he added. “That is a comparatively simple operation, and can be done without leaving any trace or disfiguring scars. “In face-lifting operations, a highly skilled job at any time, the incisions are made dependent upon the part of the face or neck to be treated. It might be that the incisions are to be made on the throat, the chin, or the face itself “if th? latter, then the incisions are always made well back into the hair line, and in the natural Lnes o[ the face, so that no trace is loft of the operation.” Asked whether such operations destroyed the mobility of the muscles resulting in expressionless features, the doctor said that if ti e operation were done skilfully the expression of the face was not affected in any way.

“There have been minor operations of this kind performed in Sydney,” said the doctor, “but so far, to my knowledge, there has not been a complete face-lift by surgical means. It requires the highest degree o£ surgical skill, but there’s no doubt that the operation takes years off the appearance of a woman.”