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P.R. 33
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Monday, June 5, 1972
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DUKE OF WINDSOR
Address By H.E. Governor
The following is the full text of the address by His Excellency
the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, at the Memorial Service for His late
Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, today:
Today we pay our last tribute to His Royal Highness the late
Duke of Windsor, formerly His Majesty King Edward the Eighth, formerly
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. A figure of controversy, but
a figure dearly regarded by the British People.
"Faced with a choice between an Empire and domestic happiness,
he chose domestic happiness. This choice and decision will in themselves
assure him a special niche in history, and the sympathetic regard of
future generations.
"But on this occasion let us look back beyond the drama and
controversy of those days in 1936 to the long period during which his
star shone and he held the admiration, affection and hopes of the British
peoples.
"He had the misfortune to be born to play his major part on the
royal stage in the period between the two World Wars. It was a period
in which century-old assumptions were breaking down, and new ones had not
yet clearly emerged to take their place. A period crippled by the loss
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