The Crown

Buckingham Palace sources threw a cold douche on the hopes of enterprising New York World's Fair officials by predicting that the royal visit would be confined to a four-day stay in Washington. Tentative arrangements call for the King & Queen to sail for Quebec in May aboard the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse, tour western Canada, then cross into the U. S. and head straight for Washington. From there, they are expected to sail on the Repulse for Halifax, N. S., before returning to England.

Instead, those Britons who believe that Neville Chamberlain kept them out of war in September honored the Prime Minister with an unprecedented patter of hand-claps as he placed a poppy wreath at the base of the memorial.

The Duchess of Gloucester, first royal family member to accept the thrice-married, U. S.-born Duchess of Windsor as a social equal, was reported to have been "very gracious." British newspapers noted the meeting in a few stilted lines but gossipy U. S. newsorgans speculated that the Duke & Duchess of Windsor would be invited home for the traditional royal Christmas season at Sandringham, that the Duke might soon be given a job abroad such as the Duke of Kent was given, that the pleased Windsors had promised to abandon plans for a U. S. trip until 1940 so as not to provide an embarrassment to the King & Queen's visit next spring.

But in London court circles said that the King had refused to receive the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband since last Christmas has pleaded with his family by letter and telephone to welcome his wife to England. The Duke of Windsor is expected by his family to break his two-year exile and revisit England early in the new year, alone.

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