The Duke and Duchess of Windsor as they are today — the happiest couple in the world
— First Installment —
The "Duchess of Windsor" is counted among the most prominent women's personalities of this age... Her fame has spread to the horizons, and the newspapers of the world, East and West, have echoed her name; and that fame was not founded on a deed, or a genius, or a discovery... it was bestowed on her by a king who gave up his throne for her sake... He preferred to lose his crown and win a woman...
And here is that woman coming before us with her memories, in answer to people's questioning... "The Woman's Voice" will publish these delightful memoirs in serial form...
I was nineteen years old when I came to "Baltimore" to visit my
cousin "Corinne Mustin" and spend a month at her house. One evening there appeared to me a young man wearing an aviator's uniform, and I learned that he was Lieutenant Duke "Winfield Spencer."
Corinne had told me that three of the aviators would be coming with her husband to dinner, for it was his habit to invite such companions in order to go over with them how things were running at the airfield... I sat with her on the veranda awaiting the husband and the guests; and when they appeared from afar my eye was caught by a young man of handsome bearing, walking with a firm step, a sweet, winning smile upon his lips... And when Henry Mustin introduced me to his friends, nothing stuck in my memory but the name of Lieutenant Spencer.
Before my going to the "Pensacola" station in Baltimore, I did not know what an airplane was... in the year 1916 airplanes were a rare sight... The conversation at the table turned upon flying, and though it was new to my ears, I found a pleasure in listening to the adventures of the air and the enthusiasm of the young men; and Lieutenant Spencer, too, drew me by his gaiety and the charm of his talk, so that I came to feel that beside me was a man to be relied upon. Nor did my presentiment fail me, for after dinner he turned to me and said: Will you permit me to call on you tomorrow, and invite you to dinner?... I answered him that it would be a splendid idea were I not tied to a daily program which the Mustin family arranges for me... He smiled brightly, then answered with the same confidence I had sensed throughout his talk: No harm in that — and it makes no difference what the program may be, so long as it includes me...
The hours that followed were full of thinking, and all my musings turned upon a single point: this gay person, confident of himself and of his powers... I wished I might tell