ABDICATION BOOK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 6

ABDICATION BOOK.

“WINDSOR TAPESTRY.” REFUSAL TO PUBLISH. LONDON, May 22. The “Sunday Pictorial” announces that it acquired the rights to publish in serial form Mr Compton Mackenzie’s book entitled “The Windsor Tapestry,” dealing with King Edward VIII.’s abdication, and that it has forwarded Mr Mackenzie a cheque for £SOOO, the price arranged, but that it intends not to publish the book. The paper declares: “This is not so. much a defence of the Duke oi Windsor as an attack on the House of Hanover from the reign of George I. to the inception of the reign of George V. It is an embarrassment to the present King and Queen, and a disservice to the Duke himself. “We knew the book was designed to crush the case of the ex-King s critics. Instalments arrived from Mr Mackenzie showing that it savagely attacked Mr Baldwin and challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury. It analysed the performances of a host of personalities, but with a section entitled ‘Heritage,’ Hie book became a criticism of the Duke’s ancestors.

It was announced last December thni the Duke of Windsor bad refused to supply any information for a biography w hicli Mr'Mackenzie planned to write.