from you..."

In those first days we began to draw up the plan of the morrow. David had taken a castle for the summer in Carinthia, and we decided to look for a dwelling for ourselves in the autumn, near Paris. There was nothing to prevent our living in England, for we were free to go and come whenever we pleased; and however strong our desire to keep our ties with Britain firm, we thought it would not be seemly for us to return too soon, for his brother's sake!...

At last the welcome changes began: Herman Rogers received a letter from the pastor of the church of St. Paul, the Reverend Jardine, in which he said that he was coming to France to perform the marriage... David rejoiced at this news, and got in touch at once with George Allen, so that he might make the necessary arrangements with the clergy

and smooth the journey for Mr. Jardine, who arrived at Candé the day before the wedding. I thought him very bold to defy his superior and come to perform our marriage, and we received him with the utmost warmth.

The necessary preparations came to an end, and the trousseau that "Mainbocher" pre-pared for me was completed. From his collection I chose the wedding gown, of blue "crepe satin"; "Reboux" made the hat for me, while Constance Spry, the well-known flower arranger of London, came with her assistant to answer my request, and in a short while she turned the house into a luxuriant paradise; the flowers looked natural, magnifi-cent — this was Constance's gift to me.

David had been thinking that his family might soften once the coronation was accomplished, and that perhaps one of them would

come to attend his wedding; but what happened was contrary to what we expected. David's friend and secretary Ulick Alexander telephoned to tell us that Walter Monckton was coming to the wedding, bearing a letter from the King, in which he said: the Prime Minister has decided that the title, the "Royal Highness," shall be reserved to him and not to me; so David would be known as His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, and I would be the Duchess of Windsor — and the effect of this decision was to prevent me from standing beside my husband the King.

David grew angry, and flared up, and said: "I know my brother; he cannot have written such a letter himself; why do they do all this to me?..."

This discrimination did not stir my concern, though it distressed David, who considered it an