Edward VIII, Prince of Wales

In 1935, Edward VIII, Prince of Wales visited Vienna for the first time and lived at the Hotel Bristol. Every morning, a bellboy was instructed to bring him a carnation for his buttonhole. Later, he came back as King of England and, following his wedding with the divorced American Wallis Simpson, he came as Duke of Windsor. An ad in the paper urged the Viennese to leave the couple alone. The Neue Freie Presse daily wrote: "It is an absolute imperative to leave the Prince unmolested, to only treat him as distinctive foreigner, to absolutely refrain from staring at him or pursuing him!" But it could not be avoided that throngs of people queued up at a phone booth in front of the Hotel Bristol exactly at the time when the Duke's arrival was expected.