DAMAGING RUMOUR DENIED

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1936, Page 7

DAMAGING RUMOUR DENIED

DOCTOR’S TRIP WITH MRS SIMPSON’S SOLICITOR

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LONDON. December 9.

Mr Theodore Goddard, one of Mrs Simpson's solicitors, with Mr Sidney Barron, his clerk, who flew to Marseilles yesterday and went to Cannes, have left there for Paris. Dr. Kirkwood, a London practitioner, has gone to Marseilles, where he will take a plane for London. - Mr Goddard, after an interview lasting 2£ hours with Mrs Simpson, declined to make a statement. Lord Brownlow, Lord-in-Waiting to Kihg Edward, who is at Cannes,, in a further statement, said Mrs Simpson had signed no document whatever. Her lawyer’s visit was solely for the purpose of discussing his client’s London business.

Dr. Kirkwood’s Visit.

Lord Brownlow added: “I. can tell you Dr. Kirkwood’s visit was not announced to me. It was not until 7 p.m. last night that I even knew Mr Goddard was coming.

“I understand Dr. Kirkwood is a private practitioner with an office in Sloane Street, London, and is a friend of Mr Goddard. I just telephoned Mr Goddard at his hotel here, and he told me that this being the first time he had flown in an aeroplane and being in bad health, he had asked a doctor friend to accompany. Dr. Kirkwood is leaving today for Monte Carlo.

“These rumours are of such a damaging nature that too many precautions cannot be taken to guard against them. There is not a grain pf truth in them. . So far as I know Dr. Kirkwood is a private practitioner. I do not know anything of his being a gynecologist, but if he is he is cer-> to inly not here in relation to Mrs Simpson.” , . ,

f . No Document Signed.

Lord Brownlow made a full reply to a list of written questions which journalists submitted. He said:

“Mrs Simpson has signed no document whatever; Mr Goddard’s visit, as' stated last night, was purely for the purpose of discussing Mrs Simpson’s business in London.

“Dr. Kirkwood left for Marseilles early this morning. He has not-visit-ed the villa at all. Dr. Kirkwood’s presence in the plane is due to the fact that Mr Goddard was advised not to fly, or make any undue effort without a medical attendant.” • :

A member of the household is credited with saying: “The mistress certainly does not want to reopen her London house for many months, if ever.” Damaging Rumours. The Daily Mail’s” Cannes correspondent says Dr. Kirkwood s intended departure in the morning for Monte Carlo confirms Lord Brownlow’s earlier statement that his visit has no relation to the health' of Mrs Simpson. In an extra late edition, the “Mail” quotes Lord Brownlow as indignantly denying damaging rumours, in which he says there is not. a grain of truth. ; “I .know nothing of Dr Kirkwood being a gynecologist,” said 'Lord Brownlow; “But if he is. he certainly is not here in relation to Mrs Simpson.” The “Mail” quotes the “Paris Soiras saying that the mission of Mr. Goddard, the solicitor whom Dr Kirkwood accompanied, was to obtain from Mrs Simpson a signed Act of Renunciation.