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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 25, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 Duchess of Windsor Dies in France London up the Duchess of Windsor the american Divorcee whom the King of England gave up his throne to marry died thursday a bedridden Recluse at her self exile Home in Paris. She was 89. Buckingham Palace announced with deep regret that the Duchess the twice divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore society died thursday morning. The woman who created a constitutional crisis in Brit Ain and led to the abdication of King Edward Viii 50 years ago will be buried alongside her husband in the Royal burial ground at Frogmore in Windsor great Park in the Shadow of Windsor Castle 20 Miles West of Lon Don. Her husband who took the title Duke of Windsor after his dramatic abdication from the throne to marry the woman i love died of cancer in 1972. King Edward Viii was the Only one of the 42 English monarchs since the Norman Conquest of 1066 to willingly give up his Crown and their Romance and marriage triggered deep bitterness within the Royal family that lasted for decades. Although she was not invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana Buckingham Palace con firmed that a Long standing arrangement with Queen Elizabeth ii and her family permits the Royal plot burial for the Duchess who during her life never received the title of her Royal highness that she craved. As his brother ascended the throne As King George i in 1936, Edward and mrs. Simpson were married and As Duke and Duchess of Windsor went into self imposed exile most of the time in France. In later life they lived in a splendid mansion outside Paris where after his death she spent her last years a frail lonely and bedridden Recluse too weak to receive most visitors and reportedly not always aware of her surroundings. Mrs. Simpson then still married to american Ernest Simpson met the Prince of Wales David to his family and friends at a dinner party in London in 1930. They spent the evening discussing the differing British and american attitudes toward Central heating. The Romance blossomed and led to her divorce from a photos the Duchess of Windsor in a 1977 photo left. The Duchess with her husband the Duke of Windsor in 1946 right. Ernest Simpson growing disquiet in the family of King George v and on his death in 1936, a constitutional crisis when Edward Viii insisted on marrying the Amer ican. Prime minister Stanley Baldwin had told the King the government could not approve of his marriage to a Divor Cee a position backed by Heads of other common wealth countries. Whether on the throne or not or. Baldwin i shall marry. And however painful the Prospect i shall if necessary abdicate in order to do so Edward replied. Having made up his mind Edward Viii then went before bbl radio microphones to announce to a stunned nation on dec. 11, 1936, i have found it impossible to carry the heavy Burden of responsibility and to discharge my duty As King As i would wish to do without the help and support of the woman i  determined on their own course the couple left eng land As a Home forever and in her memoirs the Duchess later said any woman who has been loved As i have been loved and who too has loved has experienced life in its full Ness. To this i must add one qualification one regret. I have never known the Joy of having children of my  How to avoid Jet lag the Argonne anti Jet lag diet determine breakfast time at destination on Day of arrival Start diet four Days before arrival no caffeine except from 3-5 . No caffeine except from 3-5 . No caffeine except from 3-5 . No caffeine except in morning if travelling West or 6 11 . If travelling East no alcohol on the plane High protein meals include Steak eggs hamburgers High protein cereals Green Beans High carbohydrate meals include Spaghetti and other pastas without meatballs crepes without meat filling potatoes  starchy foods Sweet desserts Low calorie and Low carbohydrate meals include fruit Light soups and broths skimpy salads a buttered Toast half pieces of bread lunch dinner sleep no later than destination s breakfast time after breakfast stay awake and Active Chicago Tribune graphic source Argonne National Laboratory expert offers advice to take while travelling a new York a air travellers can help protect themselves from terrorists by flying tourist class taking a window seat and dressing unobtrusively says an expert in International terrorism. Such measures can distance passengers from terrorists after a hijacking said Rob Ert h. Kupperman a director of a Washington think tank the Center for strategic and International studies. But other Steps must be employed to deter hijackings and bombings in the first place including better use of government spying and Covert operations and More expensive baggage searches Kupperman said wednesday. One result he said will be surcharges for the increased Security. The Days of the cheap deregulated fare Structure May come to an end oddly enough due to terrorism he said. The costs Are going to be  Kupperman warned however that the greatest Cost of terrorism is the pressure to sacrifice personal freedoms for Security. He called the struggle a War but said it should not be waged at the Cost of Liberty. Clearly we need to take reasonable and lawful precautions he told delegates at the annual meeting of the american Auto Mobile association. But we must not lose sight of our Legal and moral principles in the  even with improved Security terrorism will increase and Likely will reach inside the United states Kupperman said. But he said it was important to keep the matter in perspective and said there were fewer than 1,000 deaths in 800 terrorist attacks in 1985. When compared to the tens of thou Sands of deaths on the Road and the carnage of homicide terrorism is Small potatoes Kupperman said. It is alot More dangerous to go in a taxi from Leonardo a Vinci Airport to the Excelsior hotel than it is to Fly to  aaa officials later said that fear of terrorism has dramatically shifted their travel Agency business the nation s largest. Book Ings to Europe were Down 75 percent in the first Quarter of 1986, they said. At the same time bookings doubled to Hawaii and Rose by about 75 percent to the Caribbean Australia and new Zea land said Willard Brown chief of aaa travel services. He said Domestic travel and travel to Canada and Mexico also were Well up. Kupperman a former government offi Cial whose organization is affiliated with Georgetown University in Washington called air travel rather  but he suggested that travel agents and airlines Issue pamphlets advising the following Steps for Protection in Case of a hostage incident take a window seat rather than an aisle seat. The first people grabbed Are sitting in aisle seats Kupperman said. To avoid being singled out keep a Low profile. Do not Wear expensive clothes or jewelry and do not Fly first class. Make sure you Are no different from any other passenger he said. Do not Wear a Star of David a Symbol of Judaism. Tourists and of course businessmen Are obviously and understandably frightened Kupperman told the aaa group. You must become an educational source to de mystify terrorism to place it in perspex   
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