Evening star., 1937-05-21
WINDSOR FORC0ES
CHURCH CEREMONY.
Duke to Abandon Religious
Service in Marriage to
Mrs. WarfieId.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The Church of England. regarded
one OF prime forces in abdication
OF Duke OF Windsor, together NTH
pressure brought By Prime Minister
BdldUin, again proueS STUN bling
block as 1Cedding day approaches.
Royal fdmlly 1o1D may personally
recognize marriage By sending
members to meet duke at Bidrrits.
BY the Associated Press.
MONTS, France, May 21.-There
will be no religious ceremony to unite
the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis
Warfield, spokesman announced to-
night.
Herman L. Rogers made the an
nouncement. He refused to say why
the plans for religious service, to
follow the civil service on June 3, had
been abandoned.
1t was known, however, that the
Duke and his tiancee had been trying
without much success to find an
Anglican pastor who would marry
them in the face of the church's stand
against remarriage of divorced persons
and its constant opposition to the Ed
Ward-Warfield union
Counsellor Calls at Cande.
Hugh L. Thomas, British Embassy
counsellor at Paris, was at the Chateau
de Cande with Windsor and Mrs.
Warfield today, presumably on the
question of religious service. But
Rogers would not say whether Thomas
presence had anything to do with the
decision not to have such service.
Rogers did say that the British
consul from Nantes would attend the
civil ceremony, thus giving it some
thing OF a British official favor. How
ever, the consuls capacity will be un-
official. The British government still
is steadfastly opposed to any public
recognition of the match, and no
member of the royal family will come
here.
Mrs. Merryman Arrives.
Mrs. D. B. Merryman, Mrs. War;
fields Aunt Bessie" arrived at the
chateau today from the United States
to be the number one" wedding guest.
just ahead Of her were Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Bates, described as Americans
who are personal friends of the duke"
They will stay over the week end.
The duke and Bates set out for 18
holes of golf, with Mrs. Warfield and
Mrs. Bates trailing. When Aunt
Bessie" arrived, Mrs. Warfield left the
course to greet her.
The British government in the mean
while was reported by a source close
to the Duke of Windsor to have denied
the former monarch the protection of
the British Navy for a honeymoon
cruise down the coast Of civil-war-
ton Spain.
Windsor, his friend said, was con-
sidering turning to foreign nation
for the guarantee of safety which he
was unable to get from the naval
empire he once ruled. The British
government was said to have refused
the request in view of naval incidents,
growing out of the Spanish conflict,
that increased international tension.
Honeymoon Trip Plans.
The original honeymoon plan was
said to have called for Windsor and
his duchess to leave Chateau de
Cande Immediately after their we'd
ding June for an automobile trip
to Biarritz, a French resort on the
Bay of Biscay, whose waters also
wash the Basque coast OF Northern
Spain.
After three days at the famed wa
tering place the royal couple were to
cruise on British yacht down the
Spanish coast, through the Straits of
Gibraltar to the Mediterranean and
the romantic Dalmatian coast Of Yu-
goslavia
The owner of the yacht which
Edward planned to use had insisted
upon the naval protection.
There was possibility the duke
might change his honeymoon plans
completely or might seek foreign
yacht and protection for the cruise.
Prince Paul May Offer Aid.
It was pointed out that the prince
regent, Paul Of Yugoslavia, was a
close friend of Windsor and might
offer a Yugoslavian convoy.
This possibility was considered to
be increased by the fact that the
duke planned to end the cruise with
q visit to the Dalmatian coast, where
he and Mrs. Warfield once spent q
care-free vacation. >