Visit to England By Duke of Windsor

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 172, 24 July 1939, Page 9

Visit to England By Duke of Windsor

PROBABLY IN OCTOBER Tho Duke and Duchess of Windsor have decided to pay a visit to England, says tho Evening Standard. They will arrive in October. There is no question of their obtaining permission. As British citizens, the Dulco and Duchess are free to come and go as they please. The Duke for some time past has resolved not to insist upon tho granting of tho title of Royal Highness to the Duchess. It is possible that they will visit the United States next year. The Duke’s plan to como England is not based on a hasty and recent decision. Like most Englishmen, he has always regarded the Continent as a place to visit rather than a place to settle in. But although the Duke and Duchess intend eventually to make their homo in England —as Sir John Simon at the time of the Abdication clearly stated that they wero entitled to do—their initial visit is not likely to last more than a week or so.

The Duko and Duchess will probably make one or two further visits before settling down finally, which may be toward tho spring. Tlioy realise that tho question of their return is both complex and difficult, and they have no desire to do anything that might cause embarrassment to their relations or to themselves.

The Duke’s plan to return to England does not imply that ho is unhappy himself. He is an addict to golf as ever, and he has found—like so many other golfers—that, short of living on a golf course, Paris is the ideal centre for the game. There is no other city where so many excellent golf courses can be reached in a quarter of an hour.