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AN AMERICAN BECOMES A BRITON
(BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) HOMELESS English child has in spired. 29-year-old Maurice Burke, former G.I., to become a British citizen. He has given up the orange groves of. California for a caravan In Chertsey.
Maurice first saw England as à U.S. Air Force corporal in 1943. Norwich, where he was stationed, reminded him of Staples, Minnesota, his home town in the Middle West.
Cambridge and ita ancient · culture moved him to admiration, England's ways seeped into his affections,
So it was no surprise for Maurice to find himself in love with an English girl. He married blonde, bluc-eyed Victoria Andrews in 1945.
Victoria, then 18, followed Maurice first to Minnesota and then to California. There, at Sun Leandro, Maurice, earned £18. a week and they lived in an orange..
grove.
What Will The New Queen
(and Her Husband)
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EFORE long the new
Queen will send message to Parliament formally renouncing the in- come-now around £2,000,- 000 gross a year-from the Crown Lands.
In return the Queen will ask that provision shall be
The present scale of payments
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KING'S CIVIL LIST, £410,- 000 a year.
QUEEN MARY, £70,000 a
year.
PRINCESS ELIZABETII, now the Queen, £40,000,
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dignity of the Crown and the Royal Family."
THE PRINCESS
As the Duke of Windsor
in "A comments
King's £6,000.
ROYAL,
by BERNARD HARRIS
an additional "expense without THE DUKE OF GLOUCES- "imposing severe burdens en TER, £35,000,
the people."
An amendment to cut the proposed allowance from £50, 000 to £21,000 was defeated.
opposition But, despite hot
amendment that Prince Albert should be paid .230,000, instead
of £50,000, was carried.
Story," this exchange of PRINCESS MARGARET, 20,- from the Cabine!, a second hereditary revenues for a 900. fixed payment is a bargain for the country.
For the revenues which the Monarch surrenders →→ and has done since the days
£90,000 TODAY
The new Civil List will be or because, outstanding interest for the Orst time in 112 years,
of George II are now provision will have to be made about, twice as large as the for the Queen's husband, allowances paid by the na- It the precedent ef Prince tion for the upkeep of the Albert is followed, the DUKE OF EDINBURGH will be pald Royal Family.
£30,000 a year:
A NEW BILL
When the message has been received, a select com- mittee of 21 M.P.a, repre- senting all parties, will be set up to consider it.
But Prince Albert's £30,000 would be about £90,000 a year now. So the Duke may be paid more than £30,000.
Every -endeavour will be made to avold controversy. There was plenty of it in 1840.
In January at that УСАТ Queen Victoria in the Speech The committee's proposals from the Threne announced her impending marriage, and will be incorporated in a added Civil List Bill which, by
"The constant proofs I have law, has to come into force received of your attachment to within six months of the my person and family persuade end of the late King's reign. me that you will enable me to provide for such an establish- Meantime, the previous ment as may appear suitable to financial arrangements con- the rank of the Prince and the tinue, with the exception dignity of the Crown."
The Cabinet proposed that that the Queen Mother will £50,000 a year for life should receive an annuity of be paid to Prince Albert.
Mr Hume, the member £70,000 a ́year, for which
Kilkenny objected that
for
the
Tol. 34979 & 35100 provision was made in 1937. country could not meet so great
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For she will now have increased responsibilities and additional duties to perform.
The
Be Paid?
£15,000 when she came of age. And on her marriage her allow- ance went up to £40,000, with a further £10,000 for her hus- band..
The new beir apparent, PRINCE CHARLES, now the Duke of Cornwall, is only a little over three years old. Will he get an income of his own?
He is entitled to the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, amounting, according to
the
They had a spacious, four-room apartment. Vic- toria shopped excitedly at the gay stores. She could buy anything - if she had the money.
But the heat they pre- ferred the pictures to the beaches and cooling thoughts of England madeTM Victoria homesick.
After 14 months they re- It was commonly sald thas
GEORGE VI KING
was the turned to live with her at Southall in most underpaid monarch in the parents world, Certainly, after the Middlesex. Soon they got n war, he had difficulties in mak home of their own. It was. ing ends meet difficulties
Lane
which were recognised last year a caravan on the edge of a when the Government relieved "field In Mixhams the Civil List of payments Chertsey. amounting to £40,000 a year.
The late King's allowance of £410,000, fixed in 1937,
wds
£60,000 less than Edward VII-Maurice-earned £9-10s. a
latest avaliable figure, to about and George V had received in week in a quarry; and they
days when living costs £100,000 a year.
But because much lower. of his youth only a fraction is likely to be paid over.
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HIS 'EXPENSES'
A
were
were happy-except for one thing. Victoria was told she could not have a child..
They decided to adopt one, and found ten-day-old But, said the
Of this £410,000 the amount allowed for his personal outlay was £110,000 which, as the Duke of Windsor has said, 'pays for upkeep of the estates Sandra. of Sandringham and Balmoral, authorities, they could not the stud and racing stable, and adopt the child while all private expenses, Including Maurice was American. many subscriptions and dona-
So Maurice, there and then, tions to charity."
applied for naturalisation,
the certificate Last Salaries of the King's house-
month
Three, days hold, "from the Lord Cham-reached Mourice. berlain
to the Howm
coal later an adoption court told porters," accounted for £134,- him: "Sandra is yours." 000. Maintenance of the house- hold took a further £152,800.
年
'LIBERAL SPIRIT'
ver.
The 1937 select committee Apart from an increase for had to take into account the the late King of Edinburgh, the possibility that the Duke select committee is likely to and his wife-might have a son. recommend a larger allowance
They recommended that for PRINCESS MARGARET.
"In the event of the birth of Duke of Cornwall there re- should be paid from the
TER, on the other hand, may education of the Duke and in DUKE OF GLOUCES. venues of the Duchy £25,000 a year for the maintenance and take a cut. As a younger son part for the paying of sums to of King George V he receives an annuity of £25,000 a year. This rustees to be accumulated by was supplemented in 1937 with them to make provision for
future Duchess." a further £10,000 a year be
of his "additional duties cause
An "accumulating" provision during the minority of Princess of this sort may be recommend
ed by the new select committee. Prince Charles's sister, PRIN- CESS ANNE, will probably not get an income of her own until The reason for that extra she comes of age.
Because
there was no Duke £10,000 no longer exists, and
of Cornwall during the late presumably the select committee
revenues from will take that into consideration reign, the
"ob-pecially with Sandra." served that the list had been His wife whispered: ""Tea or when it gets down to work,
Duchy vested in the King.
How Out of them the incomes of framed in a 'liberal and con- coffee?". He grinned:
about coffee?" She said: "You're Elizabeth and the flding spirit. ""
same English now-it's tea:"
And he liked the sound of 1that.
Elizabeth."
UP TO £40,000
And Sandra, now 20 months, in the cosy Surrey old, sleeps caravan. Maurice whispered what he had to eny.
What he had to say was: "England is the place for me There is a housing for "Only by economising in his
sald
the shortage in America, too, personal expenses,"
Tobacco is much dearer here, Duke, discussing the position of the monarchy, "has the King and I can't afford to drink at all. been able to meet his public But in other respects my £9 abilities without asking Parlia-10s. brings in as many cenforts. ment for additional funds."
as we got in America." December 1897 Queen He put his arm round his wife Victoria went in state to thank and said: "I like it anywhere in England." He looked across to Parliament for her Civil List.
The Speaker, says the Annual the cat and added: "And es-
that year, the Register for
It is likely that this
In 1037 11-year-old. Princess Princess Elizabeth, as heir presumptive, Duke of Gloucester were pald. was given an income of 20,000 The residue went to reduce the spirit will still prevail after 115 0 J'ear. This was raised to King's Civil List,
10 millions
-and 7 out
FORTY MILLION "miss-
.
years.
now
now in the Empire of 8 are coloured
Yet, until recently, our own show the population has in- ing" people of the Em- offelal Commonwealth Relations creased on anything like the pire, almost as many as live Office List gave an estimate of same scale. in England, have been dis- 295,549,404,
IS, INDIA, with her hundreda covered.
India's population, under of millions, the most crowded Instead of being head of 60 years. It is believed to be in-
British rule, trebled itself In of the major Empire countries?
about 570 million, as was greasing by four millen every widely accepted, Queen year, Elizabeth II is actually the In KENYA
No. It is Britain. There are 531 people to the million more square mile in Britain; 313 km. head of around 610 million. Africans were counted the India..
cent,
This is more than a quar- estimate being wrong by 20 per ter of the estimated world population..
Postwar census
figures
and more efficient estimat- ing are responsible for the higher figure.
Previous estimates were off the target because
1. Some countries never had o real censussome still await
one,
2. Chaos of war led 'to, con- fusion in many lands,
a Thero whs difficulty. asresting: nemad, and isolated Toples,
4:Unofficial migration; In Hongkong, for example, the papulsion quadrupled in seven years, many of the newcomers being refugees from Chino,
MALAYA, 100, has 100,000 more than anticipated,
Ye In AUSTRALIA, Kherá re, only 2.8 people to the square mile; and 33 in CANADA..
In one area of the Empire-
Dependenete
NIGERIA, our largest Colonial territory, provides a remarkable, the Antarctic example of miscading estimates, covering 2,647,000 square miles, In 1943 it was thought to have there are no permanent human about 21 million inhabitants: in Inhabitants.
1948, 25 mullon, Now It Ir being spoken of an 28 milion, CEYLON'S population is in creasing, by nearly three per-
cent each year.
+
And the population of EAST AFRICA is reported to have Increased by 115 percent in 17
years.
Crowded Britain”
SOUTHERN RHODESIA'S has. med træbled itself in 40 years.
Tho-population in Britain has increased by about 4,000,000 -In 20 years, roughly nine percent.
Look at these figures:-
1881259 million, 1871283 milllop. 1881910 mililan,
1891381 million. 1001400 million..
By, 1928, there were around 475 million, and just before the last war the figure was thought to be 'about $10 million.
Third Of World
In 1945, the figure of 550 millon was being used.
Then we lost Burma, Eiro, Transjordan and Palestine from the
family and with them about 23 million people.
Yet, here we are now with 610 million!
Queen Elizabeth the First, in' whose reign the Empere really began, ruled "over a mere four
We have not lost any great millione, number by migration.
One last point, The Empire For the white population of is not "a quarter of the earthi's the Empirs as a whole has in surface" as is so often dectalm- creased from the 70,000,000 in ed.
1940 only to about 77,500,000—- '- It is really not for short of Just over ten percent In 12 third. years.
But that is counting the hugo area of the Antaretle Depend- That means that almost seven encies.
* Can these figures be claimed ut of every eight Empire folks,
These will ever, be univermily
Here are some facts about at evidence of the benefits of are black, brown og yellow. And whether our claim Empire: populations today: British rulet.
Hof Quém -recognised; is "another story It Jocks like For An Mury's lits the Empire peuples INDIA: Cossus, Bigures; show
China, there has been alttis to have more than doublest,
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