MY FATHER'S
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1953,
TREPIDATIONS ON BECOMING KING
13.
the most part formal, distant ilme
The Duke of Windsor's Coronatior Memoirs
PART THREE
in
to break them of this with Infinito tact to bring him -F King Edward had stratons of the suffragettes, who,
ascended
around. After his, prolonged and 10 move the and generally rehearsed. Until habit," the throne having failed
nearly fatal ulness Cabinet, now made the King and then I would judge that he had
the with some misgivings Queen the principal targets, of probably been fairly selective as That evening 'mo father re winter bt 1928-20 my father so did my father-but their eggressive campaign in the to whom he shook hands with corded in his diary, "Teday leaned upon her more and for different reasons. There cause woman suffrage. Their in public, However, his visits to twenty-three yours ago dear more.
· leaders chained, themselves to the
died. 1 the front, his Grandmama
wonder The fact is constant inspections of into what Labour Government, usht known that it was Queen Mary
callings of Buckingham Palace;
lenficis
on
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Beetle and
elvil war between
of munition of a
outstretched
and
on my
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whatever was new and untried;
not generally persuaded father to mako his
broadienst to
tried In vain
the
arinual the
Lady Pakenham
MOTHER of eight children, WIFE of a former Socialist Minister, begins today a new series that will interest every wife and mother
Dare a mother. ever admit: I was
Yes, WRONG?
A son of seven proposed being
THE real question for ' Of course it is important not punishment: for lusing his sister's
parents is not whether to descend prematurely either. pencil.
The toddler puts his parents on to get on to a pedestal o pedestal, for a sound reason: fined 3d for smashing up a stone he needs them there. It is garden pedestal with a coal essential for his security to feel hummer. Perhaps the boldstal them beside and get above him as symboliet
the absolute perfection of love and wisdom.
awful.
pr
the
Say "pleaso
do's and don'ts
nt army had never been my question in his mind of having been they embarrassed my parents
in training held down by his predeces the theatre by scattering on the plants in Britain now projected
As demanding him. into crowds, The idea that
I recorded elsewhero Christrax For On the contrary his audience
"yntes for women"----and affection for his father misguided suffragette during the ing the ordeal of war gave rise wis
the their King was with them shar- in
memoirs, there BHIGH Empito. A number of or not. Their children will much about the post others, IDE verged on veneration. King running of the Derby race.
including myself, war world that troubled and had tho common people on
put them there anyway, to Edward wanted his heir to Epsom went so for as to nttemp: among the
father's
con induce him to use the wonderful start with. mind. But nothing treat him as an older brother to stop the King's horze at every side to spontaneous ex perplexed my
ing new medium of the radio. But
"Mummy,"
" said By 12-year Tattenham Corner, an action libitions not only of loyalty but servative
uf affection. I remember my worried Him more than the class he would have none of it, an- cid und the unconscious rivalry which she miraculously succeeded father telling, with a mixture of airife that introduced now and
daughter, "I shall never rurprise and pleasure, that a unfamiliar violences into British noncering and the British you that had grown up between at the cost of her life.
"wireless" with forget the first time I thought those precious short years while
How should we parents spend MOTHERS might here these weren't perfect. It was Queen Victoria and her
The Irish question began to working man had come up to life. Instinctively he distrusttti form of soap opern. However, the
we are up aloti? Obviously, in DO tay "please" yourself if you Like not believing In
wab your child to say it. eldest Hon WAH
words of our Victorian wholly
him kand
Banish those curl orders: "Shut absent, in fuct the hond the Catholic south and the Pre- said, "Put it there, George!"
he deplored disorder and discord mother saw the advantage to the Father Christmas any more."
monarchy of the King's
She is not worried about my grandparents, "in setting a good being and as the manners and habits able to reach in this way millions perfections
the door." "Bring me my of mutual sympathy and testant north for a
knitting Imperfections example long time
of his youth were supplanted by of his subjects whom
This is not always casy. I went As the years understanding between them hung in the balance, Over
he had any longer, for now she is ok father
Saturday afternoon. Father mide himself felt in the free ways of the younger never seen and who would other enough for us to discuss them is was almost unique in the shadow.ang there doenestic trou-
playing tennis with the chil- cther
postwar generation and as the stability wise never even hear his voice openly together. But there was The way 8. the menace of Ger-
dren. He sups arti comes a traditional relationship be- bles was
known He gave in to her with misgiva time, not so long ago, when which had
period, instead of producing, in of the society he had many
begun
undermined
bocathe Ings he tween a British sovereign threaten British naval supre-
Lloyd
and without enthusiasm, he George's slogan, convinsted that all
horrible cropper. A stream of language ho
too. "And Daddy Heroes" be- and his heir. King Edward macy. The problems that now Country Fit Far
had But, delighted with the world doubts, and agonies about me. stipa, out, known and believed in
won't even let me say blast! wide acclaim of the first of slowly but inexorably slipping periment, he tame encouraged almost pushed filled my father's boxes
were cume
A mistake trouble.
private comment. more complex
Most children understand ex- my father to be active in the tavern which any other hard times. Depression brought away.
secret pride in the preparation COME parents may say: "Don't nhi theftvery of ench Christmas get on a pedestal at all. treme provocation, and there are widespread unemployment which
to message.
will two perfectly good ways of deal. Then your children in turn brought in "the dole,"
with this situation, They ng wit Meanwhile the political power
saved this experience."
If you think sweating is per- make special efforts to keep on
missible for adults, but un- children's level. They
you say. even decide that the children seemly in children, hall. cail them by their if questioned: "But Daddy's a man! It's all right for him," ing then becomes a grown- to look forward to,
far
public affairs; to make a British monarch had habit of listening to debates had to deal.
in both Houses of Parlin-
hitherto
ment and to make himself RARE WISDOM
familiar with the correspon- dence between the Foreign Offee and heads of British missions abroad, a conces- sion which Victoria had withheld from her heir.
But perhaps the most for sighted service he gendered my father was to provide him with a trusted and singularly wise and
TN his approach to his task
my father was fortunotė In receiving the shrewd advice of a former Liberat
Minister Prime under
Queen Vieloria, Lord Rosebery. A few months after his
accession Lord Rosebery wrote for
him n remarkable
hen
nct memorandunt in which experienced adviser-Sir Arthur be followed by the sovereign. forth his concept of the line to Bigge, later Lord Stamfordham.
years my The document reposes in the was sixteen Bigge
father's senior; during the last Round Tower of Windsor Castle,
five years of Queen Victoria's was unaware of its existence
I came upon
it in Sir reign he had been her Principal until Private Secretary after serving a He
Harold Nicholson's excellent rigorous apprenticeship under blugraphy of my father, "King
I am that most sagacious of royal George V."
quoting it counsellors, Sir Henry Ponsonby, because it seems to me to spell He was at my father's elbow for out with rare wisdom the unique thirty years to school, taiate, problems facing any monarch in protect and guide until he deafli the modern world:
at the age of eight-one in 1931,
Is
when my father said of sin, "He taught me to be a king."
THE CAUSES
ΤΗΣ causes of my father's
now that (the . But it King) has to give colour and stamp to his reign. He will be Judged in the next two years the wishes
to
his
Teign illustrious, he will have to give up the next two years to that lask and
Kive himself up to that and nothing else, just as an ambitious and patriotic minister would do. He must make himself felt all the
trepidations on becoming king lay in his tempernenver. Le con trasi -with King Edward's time. -expansiveness he was shy-and retiring. Outside, of the family
"He must make it clear to his elicle and the company of a few
close friends he was usually subjects that he is earnest and ill at ease. This withdrawn side Industrious,
as indeed he is.
of his mature had been to some That should be the stamp of his
extent
accentuated by the habits reign. He should show that he is
tight have aspired to be First "There
deny himself
any
Pandora's Britain
camo upon
was
My father was not ∙one hold back his own opinions. He had a habit of expressing his views to his ministers with sailor's forcefulness that could on occasion take them uback. But whenever he had to choose between his personal stitutional ways end
predilec-
con
to take
Cx- A
A BROADCAST ther
KNOW that he did from an amusing experience which happened at Sandringham a year
went
mistake.
through
סט
of
any
Is his son's
Sw staying up late or
liko
al- the latter that in the base was always made from a
If you think swearing is bad prevailed.
myself little room after Christmas din-holsted I have clien seen him blow up ner. The rest of the family, high, with his father towering in itself, there is only one thing in wrath over come measure gathered in the main hall ad- | somewhere above, perhaps on for it. Daddy must apologise. presented to him for the Iloyal foining, would listen to his voice a cloud-capped eminence. Assent, only to hear him shrug at issued from the box. Then
off his anger with the state when he was finished my father
"But of course there ment, nothing I can do about it."
time
Tho
to
Temper, temper
In this instalment
Instend of his fascinating tions and his duty as a
names and "Mother." think they are making a up personal story, the
0:10 before his death. The broad-hild is three years nunarch, it was
Lime By the
old he has driving a car. Duke of Windsor
his mother Armly on takes behind
you the scenes to show you the character of his father, the late King George VI, and his re- actions to the many changes and problems which he had to face during The his reign. Duke also quotes the remarkable memorandum written by Lord Rosebery for George VI out- lining his concept of how the King must act.
of the gentry
ΠΟΥ
DON'T interrupt your children's
conversation if you don't want them to interrupt yours. Every mother must be a "Mry Do-As- You-Would-Be-Done-By."
criticise grown-ups. DON'T
responsible for the children' in front of the chlidren. course, they will lop it up. especially criticism of school teachers, Bul if parental 'sulzide, It breaks up the "adult front."
Tempting FATHERS, here rre some hints
for you:- DO realise that keeping up your prestige is not vanity but a Folom duty. You are the hub There- of the emily circle, fore
DO persuade your wife not to make jokes about you in front of the child:on. So tempting, but so ruinous to all of you.
DONT help your child eftir his
you are you can do it. Melhods change, and your method of doing long division may not be the same as the childa How humilisting when he exelakens in exorpora- tion: "But. Daddy, that's not how:M: Jones uld it on the blackboard!"
We parents really have face two problems. First, how I HAVE found there are two would stride back to join us to
kinds of bad example which to use our time up there to our asic us how his message had children's
best
advantage. specially shake our children's sounded. However, on this par- Second, how to climb down faith. One is a sudden outburst Under the constitutional flottar Chrismas afternoon, my
uncontrollable Children like us to be Umitations upon the executive Brothers and be any gracefully, at the right moment, of temper or
and without being hurried so rage. powers of the British monarch, demar with the contents of the
"feet of clay" absolutely reliable and utterly
calm. the most important contribution message, decided to take a walk much that our
Althoug
made set chipped. father my
They are struggling so hard that he can perhaps make is in
descent is always an Din Beld
comment at the from no xcept desk the Trust, have noticed our awkward affair. I told my, for stability themselves. How fluence. Except under
The solution extra absence from
if parents are violent. --the devastating-
· daughter seven-year-old the listening other day that I Had made and tempermental, too! intervention ordinary circumstances his
All parents hope that their My constitutional family circle, for not long after mistake: "Mummy often makes
daughter can in
children will grow up to kobp wards when I had occasion questions is
With horror Δ still remt
the commandement, "Honour thy confined to
an mixtakts" I added purposely. ask him what he thought of an She goggled a bit over this friend's mother suddenly bolling father and thy mother. Victorian and to wdim." right "to, udvise, to eticourage, Important radio talic I had given but chiefly over my ddinitting over, ruithing at her daughter, parents thought that a little in London he looked at me it. She had evidently noticed and shaking her violently for wholesome fear would help their quizzically and answered, "I did the fact herself already. not hear it. Why should I? You
Christmas!"
the
CONSISTENCY aldre Arten
THROUGH the probity of Illà,
TH
own nature, the toil istency
of his principles and bellefs and
his dislike of extremes my father
thade the monarchy in stabilis
to mine Inst
TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT SATURDAY.
*
Big shock
THEN
R
5000 miner offence. She felt children to honour them. We
display was
the
was "letting down twenleth century parents seek to parents' side,"
rule by love, not fear. Unfair punishment I went on to say Mat I
second kind of bad exemple. sometimes did wrong things; Children have a mania for "fair and had to be dorry for them, ness," They expect to be 015 she did when she was punished sometimes, but It naughty.
This was a big shock.
She
must be "fait."
Family affection is really the Tolution to all the problems I have raised. Even the problem of the pedestal is ultimately a matter of love.
Children but'üz' bh'll because they love us. We must use our
Ing factor: in an era bf violent (Copyright 1953. World Copyright drew in her breath, drit I could chilly I let my youngone there in thaking ourselves
choose their ανα new relatioitship was see' dawning. But the district glint punishments. They are often re- worthy to be loved and honcured. Vedling, showing how differently of pleasure in her eyes told me from us, they rate their mis- that I had taken the first step demeanour. My son ol five down from the pedestal nono suggested "No more Sunday pay Express.) too soon.
(pocket money) for a year," as a
change. In his
custodianship: Including all rights under Pan- hocused the brown to be re American Copyright Convention cognised 09 standing above reserved. Reproduction In part class and party rivalry His ser- or in full in all languages strictly which into my father's middle taken
vice us a sailor
pilnce had prohibited. By arrangement with him la the
British the
London Bunday of thought and discipline formed willing to
und by his two decades of service in pleasure to do his duty; more, se had remained in the hands Domialors
possessions. the ftoyal Naty. At heut he was that he is ready to do any faster and faster into the hands sharper insight into in
passed ovtress. Hc came to have a new asallor and his memory was disagreeable to himself. This is of the working classes and their idea of the forever traveling back ohh a hard saying, but most frulla leaders. In 1929, after the fall monwealth ng ani asociation by Empire and Com- Finval associations; it was to occur are hard, to me more than once that he
of the Conservatives under free and equal nations united
common dynasty than. Edward Sea Lord of the Admiralty rather still. ile mus emember that to send for the Socialist leader, VII
is something harder Stanley Baldwin, my father had
possessed. Under him the than King
Rumsay MacDonald, and invite crown became a focus of an every word of a King is treasur
and Labour empire
eventually of a ed in this country as if it were him to form the first Queen Victoria's death,
Government,
commonwealth composed by God's; that he cannot speak
vigorous independen: nations krisling my dither the redkite without the chance of his words heir to the throne, brought an being noted, and carried, even
proud of their shared past and My father and Lord Sum-to-be-shared future. From being and to his active naval service by servants, To his intimate fordham later supplied me with something remote and apart and the beginning of his public friends he can no doubt unbosom some of the details of that re- the crown became under duties. He was then thirty-five himself, but even this with pre-markable encounter bad during the next nine years gs Prince of Wales be carried out his princely functions faithfully and conscientiously. The corner-
devotion to duty
Is some-. and reticence there stone laying, the inauguration of expositions and municipal build thing else lo be noted, and that the pubile dinners-alt is the instinct of striking the these he performed if not with imagination."
Hut at least as part of an
knescapable routine.
In his quiet way he never
bought to assert himself. Unlike
his father he had no appelito
caution....
"Besides
Fit
his
between personal influence a
powerful con- the King and his new Labour example of cohesion and
graduat ministers.
They included, be- tinuity in a sdelety in
revolution. sides Ramsay MacDonald, who
had begun his career as a low- My father unbent slowly and paid clk, three trade unionists to the extent to which he did the colourful J. H. Thomas unbend the credit should be who had been an engine driver; given in large measure to my Arthur Henderson, who had mother. Throughout their long been a foundry labourer, and married life they were married forty-three year→→ mill hand
she was not only the loving wife who bore him six children My father had been shocked but also his gracious and kn-
UNRECEPTIVE J. R. Clynes, who had been a for almost
ETICENCE, devotion to duty,
for diplomatic wire pulling to industry and earnestness by a report that his new Prime lighted Queen Consort who had
the bone and sinew he was these come easily enough to my Mister had presided over British and by and largo father. But from what"
his
gung.
*
an intuitive undersidriding of
foreigners bored him. Content to of his make-up, Rosebery's sug- Hali only shortly befuce at
know public meeting at
the Albert what was expected of them. leave the glamour and Hich palities to the King, he found his sons that he should attempt which the Bolshevik anthem,
My father was essentially deepest satisfactions in
to strike the imagination and
daily In his lon and The Internationale," had been man of habit family life and in the pursuit of make himself felt all the time enthusiastically
routine and beasonal schedules. Fixing his hobbies shooting, sailing fell, I suspect, on unreceptive Ramsay MacDonald with a cold Any proposal that required de and stamp collecting in which
Any form of exhibition-
tion oye to show his concern and
and viation from his accustomed few in Great Britain excelled isin and histrionics
certain to be met hin. The closeness of his ties to
the King asked routine was contrary
to my father's natway disapproval, ble dather was enirsored in the instincts. In charmeter and out-paper accounts of this incident occasions when
Rizal_quarely whether the news with resistance, But my mother know his mind so well that on his advisers that his four homes-In look he belonged rat
rather to the were true. The Prime Minister were unable to persuade him to Windsor, and in Scotland-were on of monarchs described admitted with come
by Waller Bagelibt's famous ment that all within a literal stone's throw study on the English Consiliu been sing
fact London, at. Bazidringhain, at
aur
places.
f
Bald the
embarras
the
song had Indeed undertake novel projects which
evening brown
they judged beneficial to
she usually. :rihnäged constitutional formal,
Rámy Mr King, never Donald agreed but added, to exclung; they have nothing to my father's constemation, that HEAVY CLAIMS stir coger blood, awaken high bla followers would. In fact
K
...
Imbarch are grovt Bald.
Workc
but
imagination,
wlid have sung it again in the thoughts." In this Ectiso my House of Commons in jubilatioh WINOSHË mediately
father could be sold to have over the defeat of the Con In been the ideal monarch for servatives but for his restrain- 'true' it's heavy chins whom the British einstitution upon
Infuchce and was weling.
And that of his ink composeil digreeablo existence. The re-
moderate colleagues conflict
"Good
thio
Molutidh of g
between the Lords and the
dotom tharkly after his an undrammatic manber, quite his King, "they'll #iniz" it ́
1
Shame-
Nevertheless he achieved in
Lord,” exclalnied the outside had neverthelons left own what Lord Rosebery had title Palace next," hangover of political acrimony, hoped for him, The Arat World facedly, the Prime Minister lege Industria surrost. Wer brought hit for the fist explained, "Tar troubles, mordfested fiscut in a wave of time in contact with dis propis Your Majesty, that they have Blesken, patys parents pubile, life, at close...rangų. Prevbusly, his lately got used to, binging that. was plagued by fariation demon- publle appearances had been for, tong, and it may take a lidé
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