Ex-King Edward, now Duke of Windsor, is to stay for an indefinite period as the guest of Baron Eugene de Rothschild at the latter╒s castle at Enzesfeld, 25 miles south of Vienna. [This confirms the information published in the ╥Manchester Guardian╙ last week that the ex-King had arranged to go to Austria.]
The express on which the Duke of Windsor travelled from Boulogne reached Vienna at 10.05 last night. The Duke drove off at once in Baron Eugene de Rothschild╒s car for Enzesfeld.
The house at which the Duke is to spend the first part of his self-imposed exile is a hunting lodge with about forty rooms, standing in an estate of nearly fifteen square miles.
AT VIENNA STATION
As the train drew in at the station police hurried on to the platform and formed a cordon round the special sleeper which was next to the engine and luggage-van, allowing none of the passengers anywhere near it. Inside the cordon a number of detectives, led by Dr. Skubl, Police President of Vienna, and Sir Walford Selby, the British Minister in Vienna, had gathered. No representative of the Austrian Government was present.
For a couple of minutes nothing happened. Then suddenly the Duke appeared at the carriage door. He was dressed in a black winter coat trimmed with a Persian fur collar and dark red woollen scarf and a bowler hat. He was followed by Detective Storier, who carried the Duke╒s Skye terrier Slipper. After a few words to the Police President and Sir Walford, the Duke and the rest of the party proceeded through the ╥imperial waiting saloon╙ to the car.
THOUGHT FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Suddenly he turned round. ╥I want you to let the photographers come along,╙ he said. ╥They had a very tough journey and they deserve some pictures. Let╒s turn back.╙ So the party went back to the platform and the photographers were allowed to come through the cordon.
The Duke submitted to a cross-fire by flashlights and cameras, complying with all demands of the photographers. After about five minutes he said in German: ╥Well, I guess, gentlemen, this is enough.╙ He walked away and two minutes later the car drove off through the city streets to the open country south of Vienna. He reached the castle at 11.15 p.m. (Central European time).
THE JOURNEY FROM BOULOGNE
The Duke of Windsor announced through Colonel Piers Legh, his equerry, that he had had a very comfortable journey and was grateful to the three score newspaper representatives on the train for not disturbing him.
Only twice throughout the journey had the Duke been seen in public. He took a five minutes╒ walk on the quayside after leaving the destroyer Fury, in which he travelled from Portsmouth on Saturday. The second occasion was at Innsbruck when the Duke was visible through the window of his coach.
Accompanying the Duke were, besides Colonel Piers Legh, a valet, Detective Sergeants Storier and Hatfield, and his small Skye terrier Slipper. The journey proceeded without the slightest incident. Comparatively few people were on the train, and the Duke╒s seclusion was guarded in the most efficient fashion by the police of four countries ╤ Britain, France, Switzerland, and Austria.
