ABDICATION BOOK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 9

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 £ 5000, the price arranged, but that it intends not to publish the book. The paper declares: “This Is not so much in defence of the Duke of 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’* 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,’ the book became a criticism of the Duke’s ancestors.” It was. announced last December that the Duke of Windsor had refused to supply any information for a biography which Mr Mackenzie planned to write.