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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1952.
The men the Princess picked -youthful, energetic, informal
Fourth of the series
THE PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE QUEEN
an
This in his ofice. The wife and children in the pictures are
Equerry to SMALL brass plate Melbourne,
the unimposing Queen and the Duke of Edin- burgh, and Private Secretary to "House" the Duke, door says "hold Offices." You ring a bell, a Gronndlor Guardsman admits you, and his. And he strikes the key then, by-passing a clutter mates of the New Guard who of Officers' rations, you are have been managing the im In a room which gives you mediato affairs of the youthful, home-loving, and efficient royal three impressions at once,
couple. and the first la that every body in sight is young.
Mike Parker something now. He is the first Dominions-
accent
F
Scotland the call epme. - Philip was marrying Princess Elizabethi. Would he come down as equerry? He would.
The young men have much in common, including flair for Navy-style practicni Jokes, cricket, squash, hockey, Rugger, sailing small boats, and amateur photography.
In the picture
with his Leica is pretty
General Sir Frederick Browning's wifo -Daphne du Maurier and children,
afra, Charteris ang yamliy
Mrs. "Mike" - Parker. and her daughter Julio-picture by her husband.
Mwall the official recorder of Secretary to Princess silzabeth, with the smile that goes with his self: "I will serve that young
Indeed, nobody over 55 born man to be brought into the ever comes into this story royal entourage. of the New Guard at
This True, he sits there, ingenuous royal off-duty moments. Clarence House just as looking, in black jacket and role he discusses with Boren, a nobody under 61 came into striped trousers; and his manner Court photographer, between sets yesterday's story of the Old and
prove that Xavier on the squash court at Ducking- College, Melbourne, has nothing ham Palace. Guard
Buckingham at
to learn in social graces from Palace.
Britain's best public schools,
his But he
punctuates work with a gay laugh, naval slang, and a Arst-Dame In formality with colleagues-that
novel
-Domesticity
is
He bears out the theme of this Household. Ho is young-30. He is domestic, with a wife and three children, aged six, four; and two, in Ingram Hampstead. He is efficient. this popping in and out all the matters openly-that equalisa-
Avenue,
He is, in background If not in time-who
of wealth has
That office he no longer
A man who is now holds disconcerting switch to "duck women." and his room lucks like a shooting" Arabic, which he self-dedicated to that service.
picked up in Palestine,
From this man, we should not clearance sale.
Now he is winding up his job, be surprised, stems the new It is almost certain that he will spirit that
to beginning go la
to the Palace as
management of He rates no grace-and-favour
Private Secretary, to the Queen. royal affairs. as an Assistant pervade the house, but lives in Launceston
We are back Parker's room, Place, Kensington; and he uses
He realises--though he would and in comes
the last ba a men-there is
to discuss such spool after spool on his chlidren and the wife he met by chance
with tion welcomed in the Ayrshire
left the and married E next Impression this room spell a
approach-part-of-the-old-tradi--"Hello, BoyHere, rendity-Monarch,-with-great-houses-and- approach to town of Troon.
this de estates, all but isolated. doyen of gives Is of domesticity. protocol. Not that protocol is
Ils position in the new House- the King's Royal Rines, the man
informal but The goal, as Sir Frederick For dotting the mantelpiece and in donger. For bohind the
hold is
for hia who assured,
it, was Military Inteligence formidable Lieut.-General
is to IC- Sir might well see the desk are pictures of a dark, exuberance is a tough grasp of
employer's Aiutus hos not chief in Palestine, the brother Frederick Browning,
establish links with the who was
people; friendly Scotswoman, once Eileen ceremonial and what is due.
changed. He will continue to of the Earl of Wemyss.
Comptroller and Allen and her two children,
he Philip's private secretary at Buckingham Palace.
Out of it all, though, has come Michael and Julle.
a taste a quick
for smile, humour, practical and otherwise, and an unsnobbish friendliness. He has, oft guard, a look older than his years, which may be
T
of
a
captain in
the
went-
He is there because, the son Royal The third impression is of up- -to-date efficiency, for nothing Australian Navy, he
In his room he amlies "That's could be more up to date or curiously enough, it was caster the lot, Pat," to Miss Thomus, his efficient than the buzzing, twink into the Royal Navy. Prince
secretary. And at that moment ing inter-com, at the side of the man at the desk, who is of the Philip, by quite another route, went into the Royal Navy. They ing to its cries of "Mike"¬while met. They stuck:" putting his signature to black- bordered letters.
This is Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, aged 31, late of
Was
And while Parker, invalided out with stomach trouble, working with a rope firm
in comes Charteris. He does not send a memorandum that he is
He is Elon, Sandhurst, ment,
is
the
or and with ever-widening circles
01
PATRE
hold, of their representatives.
Princess Elizabeth's
But even with the man who the 2nd Battalion, commanded Grenadier Guards, the 1st Air- borge Division, and the British Airborne Corps, the impression A Iegacy of
wartime. here in Clarence House is not
discipline but_of_a_ A sign of conscientious staccato charm. application to a strenuous job.
All
vanishes this, however,
some
calling. He pops in-Irom the bahtyBut which-is-inore of force.
room opposite.
Lleut-Colonel Martin Charteris
His colours in was until the accession Private with the smile and especially
Grigori's Day In Red Barracks
Dusseldorf, Apr. 21.
room
And lastly-
ONE
NE man, now at the Palace, may yet have... deciding voice in fulfilling all these hopes. He is the senior assistant to Sir Alan Lascelics, Private Secretary to the Queen, and his natural successor as No. 1 royal side.
This is the diminutive Bir Michael Adeans, only 41 years of age. His grandfather, Lord Star,
Was Private background enough,
to George V. That is
HIS
has not only the neatness but the para- phernalia of a leading soldier.
Two colours pegged to a wall dominate the room-the, one he gave 'to units of the Airborne But, more important, Adeone, of all the Palace officials, has Here is his diary of how 11 a.m.4 p.m. Defachment packets of coarse tobacco śvery | Carps,
and the Commanding TWENTY - TWO YEAR- the Russian national service- training.
10 days. They roll their own Omicers Company colour of the on outlook which is closest to the
Grenadier Guards.
Queen's own. 4 p.m. Lunch-black bread, cigaretes." TOLD Grigori Gludki, man, already confined to bar- en soup, Bruel or porridge CHladki,
he who said
had
--(London. Express Service) His interests range through all racks and denied contact or macaroni with minced of never heard of Field Marshal the out-of-door preoccupationa through with the Germanis, spends chopped meat.
Red of Englishmen,
We dre left with a final "We get ment Montgomery, alleged that
said
aspert in this series. The all his time from dawn to lights every day in Germany," Army men were now told war numerous charities, through
Gladki. "In the Soviet Union, was knocking at the door.
things mechanical, through all
Queen has a consort, He out:
however, the army has what it
The men had absolutely no forms of Incomotion—it is said is the first to whom she.. calls 'vegetarian days."
contact with the outside world, he. hates to break out of a would naturallý turn for 4.40 p.m. Free period,
but, on the barrack "g
slow walk-but sooner rather "grapevine"
Informal advice. 6 pm.
cleaning and he knew about anti-Communist than later they will focus on a Weapon maintenance of equipment,
ienficts and successful escapes home at Par in Cornwall.
There live! 6.40 pm. Recreation-largely by commades to the West,
his wife, live
Daphne devoted to "self tuition."
British intelligence
Maurler, officers an-
and his
three m. Supper-black bread, rounced today that "quite
children-we are back to the mashed potatoes or potato salad, steady now of officers, non-domestic note-Tessa, 18, Flavia, minced or chopped meat and commisioned officers and other 14, and Christian, rising 12. And sweetened too.
ranko of the Red Aamy In a dog named Mouse.
latest Red Army refugee to arrive in the West, grinned broadly in an I.Q. room to day, fumbled his shabby red tie, and told the tough, strange tule of day-to-day life -among "square bashers."
Red Army
6 am. Reveille. 0.05 a.m Fificen minutes physical jerks,
0,20 am, Twenty minutes for shaving and dressing. 6.40 am. Morning and roll call,
parade
# 0a.m. Breakfast-consisting
Gladki, a sergeant in an anti-aircraft unit stationed near Berlin, fled three weeks of black bread, ago to the British-held wetened tea. sector of the city. changed camps by a secret, route inside three hours.
He
Boup tind
instruc 9.40 am. Political
Fridays. ton on Tuesdays and Field, gas and arms training on other days.
10.25 p.m. Evening roll call. Germany is now reaching the
West."
11 p.m. Lights out.
"Red Army soldiers,"
said
Gladki, "have an issue of four
L.E.S.
inat
du
A happy man, Sir Frederick, A man who heard the Princess's speech of self-dedication from South Africa and said to him-
Refreshing!
Therefore let sis examine' the role of Philip and those in his family who were "brought nearer the steps of the throne by his marriage. Next Saturday then- THE ROLE OF PHILIP
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