"Fit"

The Duke of Windsor's only sister Princess Mary, the Princess Royal of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, arrived in Austria with her husband the Earl of Harewood last week, first member of the British Royal Family to visit Edward VIII since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well, you do look fit." The onetime King-Emperor, apparently on the verge of tears, could say nothing at first as he and the Princess Royal gripped hands, while Lord Harewood discreetly fell into conversation with photographers. By next day Edward VIII seemed in high spirits, showed his sister & brother-in-law assiduously through the miles-long corridors of the late Emperor Franz Josef's Schonbrunn Palace. In its theatre a party of giggling girls began--throwing kisses at the Duke of Windsor and he spent some time blowing kisses back at them with a curious two-finger gesture. There was no scrap of evidence, plenty of rumor that the Princess Royal and Harewood, who was recently appointed an Aide de Camp to new King George, had come to discuss the Duke of Windsor's finances. Bills for debts he contracted as King are being rapidly settled in London, the biggest check being $600,000 to Cartier, but beyond that nothing has been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schoenbrunn; I know it so well."

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