From Deseret News archives:
The man who would be king
Edward gave up the empire to marry the woman he loved
The king had been carrying on with Mrs. Simpson for two years, and newspapers around the world had been reporting on the affair. The English newspapers kept mum, but in the streets as well as in the drawing rooms, Edward and his mistress were a hot topic of gossip. Hundreds of U.S. newspapers arrived every day at the London offices of American companies and were read by their British employees who naturally spread the word among their families and friends. The other Americans in my office and I liked to read our newspapers on the buses and the underground, making sure we held them high enough for our fellow passengers to gaze over our shoulders at the latest stories on the king's romance.
One evening in Euston station I saw a woman pick up a copy of Time magazine at the news stand and leaf through it until she found a torn-out page. "They've censored it again," she exclaimed. Noting her American accent, I introduced myself and learned that she lived in Cumberland Terrace across the street from Mrs. Simpson. At first she and fellow residents had been excited to see the king walking around the neighborhood, but now it had become routine.
A couple of weeks before the abdication story broke, I went to see "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," the Gary Cooper film. At one point Cooper announces, "I've got to go down to Mrs. Simpson's." The audience howled. Years later when I saw the movie on late-night TV, I was surprised to discover the line was no longer there. I figured a Hollywood jokester had inserted the line to amuse British audiences.
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