THE DUKE OF WINDSOR’S FUTURE HOME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 7

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR’S FUTURE HOME

LIKELY TO BE IN AMERICA REPORTED OPTIONS ON ESTATES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received March 9, 9 p.m. PHILADELPHIA, Maarch 8. Newspapers record a copyrighted dispatch which states that the Duke of Windsor is coming to the United States immediately after the wedding. |He has taken an option on three American estates. The one favoured most is a castle-like, 20-roomed country home near Baltimore. The option provides for a year’s lease with a right to renew for two or more years. The owner, Mr. Sumner Parker, a Baltimore machinery manufacturer, has just sailed for Europe. INTEREST IN MRS. SIMPSON HER DEPARTURE FROM CANNES. WILL RESIDE CLOSE TO PARIS. LONDON, March 8. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says the greatest secrecy surrounded Mrs. Simpson’s departure from the Villa Lou Viei to-day. Clad in a black tailored costume and black three-cornered hat, she slipped out of a side entrance to the villa at 7 a.m. in drizzling rain, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers. A detective who had been specially sent from London travelled in the car, which, with a changed number plate, was followed by a second car containing French detectives. The party are spending the night at an hotel in a little village near Avignon, the identity of which has not been revealed. The party will go on in the morning to the beautiful Renaissance Chateau Cande, 20 miles from Tours. It stands in 1500 acres of gardens and grounds and is owned by an American, Mr. Charles Bedaux. Mr. Herman Rogers says: “Mr. and Mrs. Bedaux are our friends of many years. They asked Mrs. Simpson and ourselves to be their guests for as long as we like.” The Daily Mail understands Mrs. Simpson has changed her residence because she wishes to be within easy reach of Paris so as to enable her to make frequent journeys in connection with her trousseau.