Husband, Edward

Arriving late at Union Station in Washington, Szilard called the Edward Tellers. They were still recovering from the work of hosting the Washington Conference. Mici Teller protested the surprise visit, her husband remembers No We are both much too tired. He must go to a hotel. They met Szilard anyway, whereupon to Teller s surprise Mici invited their countryman to stay with them ... 

King Edward. No more thy husband and the queen shall die. 

Other jewellery of the period wonld seem, to modem eyes at least, to have more simply ironic overtones - heart pendants were thought to signify constancy, and the six-times-married Henry Vtll had thirty-nine of them - while others spoke unequivocally of death Queen Elizabeth wore a book containing a copy of the last prayer of Edward VI, in golden covers , and a particularly famous piece of the period was the Lennox jewel, commissioned in memory of Margaret Lermox s murdered husband. Joan Evans observes more generally that in the second half of the sixteenth century. .. a constant preoccupation with death became once more... 

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