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WINDSOR, WHERE KINGS RETURN TO FINAL REST
View of Windsor Castle
Brave
Ten Centuries Of History
By JOANNE
COOPER
which
to
FTER the State tory is the history of Ane wrought iron grills
funeral procession England since that time, surrounded the tomb.
The next sovereign buried in London today; . There are two Windsors, here
was Henry VIII, who the remains of King the old village of Wyndle- directed that his body should be George VI are to be taken shore, where Saxon kings laid beside that of Jane Seymour from the capital to Windsor probably had a palace, and in a magnificent tomb, but this Charles 1 was never completed, for burial in St George's where Edward the Confes was abo buried here without Chapel,
sor held court, and the new service in 1849.
The lost Sovereign ald town which gathered about
rest in St. George's Chapel was The borough of Windsor the Castle for protection,
George V. whose funeral tock has had a long association Edward the Confessor place on January 28, 1930. Within its ancient walls with English royalty, granted the site to the Ab-
stone are reaching back ten cen- bot of Westminster, but grey Colswold
ark, canopled oaken stalls of turies. And since William when the Conqueror visited the Knights of the Garter, each. the *Conqueror, Windsor the district he was so struck with the banner, sword" Castle has been the chief with the beauty about him helmet of its knightly occupant
hanging above it, residence of the kings and and the strategical value of queens of England. Its his the site for military pur- poses that he revoked the Confessor's grant and gave CHARLES the Abbot Home Essex property in exchange,
Example Set
By
King During The War
the
About
to the Air Force
A colonel that day commented: N the dark hours of
1940, when the British "The King knows & FOL
talks our lan- Isles stood in imminent saldiering. He
gunge danger of invasion from
During the ensuing months across the unfriendly. there were more frequent visits: Channel, the sound of gun- to the Macris, to the heroes of fire was often to be heard Dunkirk, to training camps, to
Marines, to from the gardens of and the Navy. Buckingham Palace.
In July 1940, during a day the Navy ut Portsmouth, an air-raid warning sounded. The King was fed into a raid shelter, where he it a cigarette and calmly suggested that his tour should continue at chee
tall with
For there, behind the wall, King George-VI-was-train ing with tommy-gun and rifle under the skilled eye of a men ber of the Brigade of Guards. In a very short time he had becoine
crack shot.
And the Queen, ever beside bim during the trying war years and since, practised to become
thot excellent
.with revolver she kept in her sitting-
an
war,
д
It dich.
In The Blitz ON another
August 1940, the
*STATE ROOMS
of
the
and
re-
II completed the so-called Star Bulld-
tho named from Ing. presentation of the star
the Where
Castle the Order of the Garter on the present
front. Here the State stands, on the west bank of north
They
throne room, St
the Thames, about 21 miles west apartments ure situated. of London, William erected a include the fortress, of which no description Georgo's Hall, where meetings now remains, but it probably of the Order of the Garter are held, the audience and presence the first King of England to This officer was not the first resembled other Norman strong- chambers and the grand recep-
then be
being were holds which
room, the Castle is finished in 1098,
British hero
now
Join his Fleet by plane.
to receive trent-
A notable building at Windsor, In April 1942 he created an- ment of this kind, so clear un put up: In the Domesday Book, tion other precedent. He was the example of the late King's over first British Sovereign to de- riding desire to be regarded as mentioned as having a half hide adjacent to St George's Chapel, memory of Queen Victoria's Clewer but Norman William's Prince Consort. It corate a territory by awarding the head of a family of peoples, of land parcel of the Manor of is the Albert Memorial, raised to n building the George Cross--111s own and nothing more. idea to the brave Island of In all 92,000 decorations were love of the chase caused him of indescribable beauty. It was of the Bur originally Intended to be the Malta.
a
where
the
had
tomb of Cardinal Wolsey, whu from Henry VIII, begged it but the building was never com- 'The black marble pleted. sarcophagus was eventually re-
Lord Nelson's tomb,
used
buit
the
cn
Is another
awarded du.ng the war years; appropriate miles The following month he was and more than 37,000 of them rounding farest land.
mock live-am- were presented watching
personally by roamed the wolf, the deer and
the wild boar, munition battle in the South the King.
In May 1944 King George was another visit_To_the paying.
FIRST COURT ern Command Grenades and
bullets whined Fleet in Northern Waters, this mines-exploded a few yards
God-speed 1100, Henry.
I made addi-moved to St Paul's Cathedral to from blin, and overhead. Iardly a week pass time to wish them ed without the King and Queen before they sailed on Second Itions to the Castle, which in- The Curlew Tower, with walls making some unannounced visi: Front operations.
cluded a chapel. Ten years inter twelve and a half feet thick, is to an officers club, an Army or In the same month he spent a the nobles were entertained at a the weirdest and oddest part of Air Force camp, or a bomb day with Field-Marshat Viscount Whitsunday feart-the first time the Castle. It was built in the A scarred area.
Montgomery, then Commander
a court was held at the Royal 13th century by Henry III. he had bravely of In August
armica. Britain's invasion occasion, borne the tragic
large gun in a loophole was left residence. news of the Over lunch they discussed the King death of his brother, the Duke latest D-Day plans.
At dawn, on a June morning by Oliver Cromwell.
of barons Tradition will always associate and Queen driving from of Kent, when the flying-boat room,
on by some inspiring in 1215, a cavalcade Palace
Carried tp start taking him to tecland on R.A.F. momentum AL
the King was off rode out from the ancient rattle, the Curfew Tower with the reign.. one time a parachute Duckinghara
all-night train
journey duties crashed in Northern Scol-xt month for a 12-day tour of ment of Staines and went u af Henry VIII and the famed and kidnap attempt on the King, the an
wards strip of meadow beside ghostly figure of Herne the the Allied front in Italy. Queen of their daughters was to visit the Army in the North, and
carried calmly on through a Then in June 1943, the King.
In September he sad the the Thames, called Runnymede, Hunter, who roamed the nearby terror In the feared. From then on the King London raid. Asked if they
over a cup of coffee with
Queen were visiting Edinburgh. Fearing treachery, they had re- forest and raised
of the people. travelled everywhere with a
He was wanted to halt, to delay the M
expressed the Churchill.
fused to meet King John at hearts revolver, fully prepared to shoot
train's departure, the King at with io visit his and the Allied Too Modest Windsor, and he rode also to imprentd in Che Tower, bis way out of any tight corner. once decided: "No. We carry Amics in North Africa. Agam
Runnymede. Here the infuriated mysteriously escaped, supposed- That
anecdote, selected at
was created-this a precedent Later that year, at the height was to be the first fight abroad A too, like
ND there were social activities suvereign unwillingly put his ly through a trap door in random from many hundreds
of the London blitz, the King, ever made by a King of England. all
visits to theatres, name to Magna Cartn, the great foor. He hung himself great cak in the park. about the late King ns leader
carried out with the game charter of English liberty. and inspiration of an Empire at
with the Queen as usual by his
It began in great secrecy, the devotion to duty and to his Heary II made several im-
ROUND TOWER is characteristic of the side. visited the worst-hit courage and devotion to duty areas of London and stopped to King even adopting an incognito people, with the same seeming provements. at the Castle, while
for marking his baggage. He relessness and the same talk with rald victims in hos choce the name of his Guardsmen of informality.
lave his son, Edward 1, declared the HE Round Tower with which he faced the situa-
place a free borough and it had notable landmark at Windsor, pital bests. They were irt- balman T, Jerram. tion.
There was, for example, Parliamentary representation, because on its flag-turret the this 0,000-mille, From
was formal, hardly planned exeur- war day
the night in January 1040,
Dr the It was in the reign of Edward Union Jack
Royal declared until the day of final sions, and often the royal car tous he visited Malta, North
when
King George and his 111 that the Order of the Garter Standard is holsted according as and utter victory King George, would be held up in London
Jams while
Queen arrived unannounced at traffle
founded, and St George's the Sovereign cheering Africa, and Palestine. VI would be excluded froin
performance of "Shepherd's Chapel was dedicated to the residence. The King requested that patron saint. The poet, Geoffrey From none of the dangers, duties, or crowds gathered on the pave
Windsor, across the ments. dramus faced by his people.
National Anthem should Chaucer, was a clerk engaged Thames, In November 1940. King E arrived in Tripoli in the the
one sees the misty George dropped in-no eller undress uniform of a Field not be
in its building. played.
buildings of Eton College, phrase would describe his visit Marshal, the sleeves of his
But the public refused
This early chapel was pulled founded by Henry VI, and a few quite as aptly-on an R.A.F. buh-jacket rolled to the elbow allow such modesty. They rose down almost completely by miles in any direction will bring
He arrived just in Eighth Army style.
spontaneously to their feet, and hember ste lan.
sang lustily, with the orchestra Edward IV, in whose reign St the wayfarer to some historie George's Chapel as it now stands neighbourhood. No foot et land joining in.
but could tell Its story was begun. It ranks next For the public knew so well WC Abboy as a royal
pageantry, romance and graat though no king was traditions. On September 2, 1939, the stayed to see the crew return, car, careless of the brolling sun dearly beloved King, had per-uried there before Edward IV,
It is in these ehistoric
and lovely before Mr Chamberlain's helping the Intelligence officers rays.
about raids on broadenst to the nation, King with questions
Next March he struck another caring his health or his time, who left instructions in his will surroundings that uncther great Informal, democratic, and popu- George drove to 18, Downing Berlin and Cologne.
When the
station warrant ar note. He called a Canadian At Westminster in May 1945, that a splendid tomb was to be and beloved British Street for
talk with the
Was proudly crccted with an effigy of himself will today be laid finally to rest Prime Minister, and to sign officer said the sergeants would officer, Major Paul Triquet, to public feeling
be honoured if the King would Buckingham Palace to invest summed up by Mr Churchill in silver. Nothing remains of near many of his noble Order- In Council completing the mobilisation of have a drink in their mess he him with the V.C. for deter- when, delivering the Address is, however, except part of the lustrious predecessors. the Army and the Royal Air readily replied: "T'd love w" mined, leadership and example et Congratulation to the Victory
He then drunk good luck to
in Italy.
In Europe, he said of King on them
their
missions in
Major Triquet arrived at the George VI: whisky and soda.
Palace in the battledress he had "He is well-beloved In August 1941 King George worn to fly to London, was spent
three. memorable days granted a private audience, duly with the Home Fleet in North- Invested, then led do the fire
Waters. Again he had place for a ten-minute 'Informal And the whole free world ap- created a precedent by being chat.
the
A Precedent HIS participation in the activi
lies of war started, indeed, before we joined the hostilities launched by Hitler's attack on Toland.
ray
Force.
That visit set the character for many of the other wartime visits he was to make, For it created a precedent of infor- mality and unorthodoxy. It was the first time in history that King of England had travelled to Downing Street for other than social reasons.
Almost as soon as our coun- iry was at war King George en- tered upon the arduous round of duites that was to increase the
devotion Kreat
had already he won from his subjects.
In December 1999 he making an all night train journey to Plymouth to velt the Navy and to meel officers and men of the Fleet's mine- SWORDETS and anti-tubmarine trawlers.
was
With The Army
IN January 1040 he was off on 80-mile tour ot the in Army's Southern Command. walking over frost
surfaced roads, through a forest, up and down line after line of battle- dressed men.
The next month he covered 100 miles visiting troops tered
scat- and
Donet through Devon,, casually chatting with officers and men. He also, OT this trip, visited a big aircraft factory, where his clore. quer
of techniplane tioning
and workers showed him to be a practical flying man.
As one mechanic sold Inter His Majesty knows his stuff all right. Some of his questions made, me put my thinking-cap He also showed himself to be soldier and an officer with a keen concern for the welfare of kis, men
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after midnight, in time to hear In the Western Desert, where air-crews get their briefing for he visited airmen, he travelled ralds on Germany, And he for miles en the hood of his
ern
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