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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1953.
PRINCE
his
7HEN the Changing
of the Guard is being carried out
CHARLES and ROYAL SISTER
By Margaret Saville
in the forecourt of who spend a good deal of time Buckingham Palace, two in the royal nursery.
Prince Charles is shortly to childish faces can often be
dancing seen pressed eagerly against have his first proper
lessons at the Palace from à the glass of an upper win, visiting
professional teacher, dow. Prince Charles and along with some of his small Princess Anne are standing friends, sons and daughters of
his parents there hand in hand, watch-
poraries. ing the colourful ceremonial that never fails to impress them.
iS
ure
own
contem-
her family
across are
4.5
the huge Palaco where room are so far apart from each other. The nuracry extension
"was
to be closely walehed, otherwise
and
EDUCATION.
SAUSAGE KING WILLI
By Norman Lindburst
Frankfurt
ROTUND Will Hartmann
is not wealthy. Neither Is he à politician nor even a professional man. And, even more astonishing, he does not possess the prized; "Herr Doktor" title. None theless, Herr Hartmann en Joya enormous prestige "in Germany and wields great
power.
For Herr Hartmann, you see, is an authority on wurst -the famed German BRU- sage. And there is almost no German who does not pre- fer wurst to the juiciest. stenk ever shipped from tho Argentine.
mann.
Herr Hartmann's empire. encompasses no less than.. 327 different varieties of ment wurst, to say nothing of uncounted dozens of cereal, pes, bean and onion wurst. Not only is Horz Hartmann revered by Ger man burghers for the vast lore he has at his finger tips a passengers or climb out to pace of the domestic work in Prince Charles will quickly be
on wurst, but, as president sive her n brotherly hand, as former days! So the children conducting on animated conver
with the
switchboard and sation she wheels
called
"Charles"
of the West German the lawn in the old dalis pram "Anne" by everybody and have operator.
Butchers' Guild, he has a not the least idea of their Not long ago + carpenter that belonged to the Quein as a
exalted rank, child.
arrived to make some slight re- powerful voice in the pro- Then there may be a squabble Completely unself-conscious, pairs in the nursery, Nana took duction of sausages. and even un exchange of angry they chatter easily to everybody him into an adjoining corridos
and address the and returned a few minutes The city of Frankfurt is smacks, for Princess Anne is an they meet Independent child who dos various members of the house later to And Prince Charles pos-world-renowned, and "how not always agree with Price hold by their proper names, sessed of the chisel busily boring tid it
fame? These are the children who
get its Charles, Fortunately, Nana is The Queen has always had a a often come to tea in the rayually or hund to smooth out great dislike of nicknames, and Prinecas Anne laughed approv
hole in the carpet while
"Wurst," says Herr Hart nursery and join in games in
with experienced Kobody in her circle is ever ingly. "I wanted to see it work," Palace the
gardens, where differences diplomacy.
culled by any diminutive.
was the explanation,
M Nano is Miss Helen Light- the thickly-wooded shrubberies ideal for hide-and-seckt.
At the Queen's express wish,
children her
are regarded her assistant, she and
MISS Titis is always Prince Charles'e body, the chief nurse, and both favourite pastime. He likes to
Sects essential persons in the house- Mabel Anderson, are too, ****
hold and are never shut away play play "Kicking the Ball"
their parrats behind especially if any grown-ups to join in.
he can persuade women. The Queen frequently from
she was the
douce
their of
TUTE HIS
13 something Prince suite,
run arranging the nursery
They sery suite.
Charice never can resist. One Some perforated plastic balls and provided many extra enn-
their hone freely, always com- that canno! do any damage veniences in the old rooms. A
to visit the Queen im- afternoon he was taking his walk ing were recently bought for the mail electric kitchenette was
Granny, when he royal children, a wise precau- made for them sinco the main mediately after breakfast, while in the Palace garden hand-in- as noticed the mechanten! shovel at the the "Children's Hour", between hand with sturdy domesile quarters of the little Prince's excessive energy. opposite end of the Palace,
Ave and six, is regarded quito inviolate in the royal en- being employed in connection with some repair work to the considerable distance away.
building. Many of the nursery alensis, Eagement book,
"I want to work the and accessories are in modern' plastics, the
those used in the two-
promptly declared, refusing to night nurseries in pink to match
listen to the Queen Mother's
was not alt The royal nursery suite is on
suggestion that it Prince Charles Biceps in a the recond floor of the Palace, POUR years old now, Prince the decorative scheme.
moment. He screamed sultablo and 30 furiously when she attempted one end. window looking out Churles has the Queen's thick
Princes Anno establish 50 across the forecourt down the fair hair and blue eyes, but in beautiful little bed that is
the crafts- is growing to perfect example of Mail, the others to the gardens many ways he
odine man's skill. Presented to him themselves in the Queen's sitting to lead him away that she hastily Then resemble
toys surrendered, and Charles WAS the Duke and Constitution Hill.
with the same quick by the students of the Royal room, with half-a-dozen the Queen was a child, she burgh,
turn of College of Art, it is adorned scattered over the blue chintzes lifted up by the foreman into as the driving cab and allowed to
hold the shared this suite with Princess smile and individual
operating handle, the head, and undoubtedly the with eighteen silver and enamel of the chesterfield and perhaps Margaret, who later adapted
Soon the little Prince will be The swift, interesied mind that al- escutcheons of wild animals, a box of bricks on the carpet, as her private apartments.
ways likes to know Why and all of which the Prince can where the Duke of Edinburgh
speciality. There is will soon be kneeling as he is having his first lessons in the recognise and name. largest room is the day nursery, How.
of his
son's schoolroom where his mother also one Painted cheats and wardrobes handed with its soft pole blue walls,
studied. paint and white
Atted-Everybody-who- escorts-in-hold the children's clothes,-al--mechanical models with the re-stuck The Queenphabet and Nuremberger: bratwurst. Kulm
Duke on one of his industrial ways simple and easily cleaned quest to "Please make it go". mushroom-grey pile carpet:
or scientific visits pays tribute or laundered,
her
Prince Charles is probably ex- plaining it all to his sister. He well-informed about the soldiers who fascinate him so much,
for the Queen, shoring her late father's deep interest in military matters, has often to
son clearly and simply exactly what
morning this occasion represents.
Then,
the Guards band ns the forecourt Jenves,
Prince Charles will turn away with a sigh and then brighten up again as he runs to the day nursery to find his beloved tin trumpet and "play" what he fondly, regards
s a martial tune himself.
A
PRACTICAL
on 11 11
tion in view
WHY AND HOW
to his intelligent enquiry.
a paper
.
connilted them when
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are
SAND PIES
DRINCE The PR
the
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OFF TO BED
THEN
about
Charles Prince
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After instruction
nursery-govern:55,
he
to the
LIVELY BOY
"What made Frankfurt world- famous? Not the poet Goethe, who lived in Frankfurt. ⠀ Nor cvon Baron von Rothschild. No, It was sausage, what the Americ cons call 'hot dogs, that make foreigners remember Frankfurt," Herr Hartmann asserted.
And then the wurst king.;whiä, is himself shaped somewhat like: one of his own sausages, dis coursed on what wurst, means to the Germans!
"In Germon fairy tales, fatry: land is a place where sausages grow on plants like bananas. And
one of Germany's best-loved dogs' the real reason the dachshund is
Is because it looks Uke a walking wurst.
"Almost every city and province in Germany has a warst blutwurst (blood sausage) from Thuringia,
bach blerwurst and Brunswick
mettwurst.”
Take Munich'e weisswurstchen:
fine-chopped veal Bavoured with
lemon juice and marjoram, This
Pasu
+
Blerwurst requires just, what Its name implies-a forming stein of beer to wash it down."[Fot It is made of beef and pork sprinkled with fat and highly spiced with garlic and mustard Beed.
There is probably a game of some simple recitations and how is
Ring-a-ring-o'roses, or Horses, to count up to ten. He is rapidly
A good many foreigners view Charles
as the leaming to write, and can in- Similarly, Prince
with the Duke seving constantly
questions
the scribe a somewhat shaky signa sausage as a picnic meat of asking
prancing steed. Then
with the red crayon
sort of "portable roast to be which are surprisingly to the
hands of the glit sunburst clock ture
stuffed in a lunchbox or eaten as a small boy. He
creep round, a quieter session. Likes to use. LL the furniture is plain and point for
a muck. This is a very uncul➡ As Heir Apparent reads receives 1 proper always
story AL
Charles's section while the Queen practical in the extreme.
of wurst and it's in terms answer, couched
so that the children are more Throne, an exhaustive education lured view for making sand
to Our
Frankfurt сал There are some small modern
ples relaxed and settled when Nana lies ahead of Prince Charles, distressing understand
"with lots of water"
"No two wurzta often comes to take them off to bed.
first by a There has
sausage czar. applewood chairs, and a match-
never been any
change of
are alike, and each should bo then ing round table at which the
talk" in "baby
the royal necessitates
Granny or nuse
by B sweater and
Beth the Queen dis-
shorts.
Occasionally
munner, children take their meals and
cally resident tutor, he will probably eaten in a different ane "Margo" as her nephew Princess
Anne and
time. Herr Hartmann explains. and look at their picture books. The nursery, since
likes it,
come go to n public school for n consequently both he old mahogany bookcase in the
emely well chlidren speak extremely wear a good deal of blue and Princess Margaret, will
hour The Duke of Edinburgh is par- corner has solt toys seated on
warm golden. In during this pleasant only and clearly, The
odd green, and the larger play word Prince Charles ever uses yellow in which the Queen so and join in the games, too. The ticularly anxious about this, a
treat their he feels it is essential Its shelves, while
for his dressed herself. children always things are kept in the cupboard is "billies," his name for small frequently
19
with consider son to be able to mix easily and birds such as sparrows which he cally knitted
Many of their woollens below.
are royal relatives
able
companionably with other boys should be caten piping hot with affection, running with for them In The two
nurses are provided cannot be persuaded to change.
upraised for kles of on a completely equal footing. In 12 hours after it is made chairs Nobody
Devonshire, including the little faces understand how he can
The Duke himself greeting.
JAČANJ with high-backed easy
caps they wear on chilly days, with #1 charming acquired it. covered
The Prince Charles always has to
Queen, an enthusiastic teach Prince Charles the proper Regency-patterned chintz
He never applies it to
be the little ornamentul
persuaded to wear any kind photographer, often taktes snap games, to play cricket and foot- white ground. Family photo-clucks ofi
of hat. "My head is hot", he shots of her children, es ball, to swim and box and soil Kraphs
and a bow! of flowers lake in the Palace gardens when will announce Annly. His pecially on the informal plenics a boat, stand un the white mantelpiece he
pays them his morning visit with
bag of stale hair is never allowed to grow that are a feature of family life over the open grate in which a
very long, since both the Queen at Balmoral and Windsor, when Lakca coal fire burns in winter, pro- bread. Another eall then has and the Duke of Edinburds the Duke of Edinburgh teeled by a brass mesh screen to be made at the hutch which hold that a bey should have a the wheel of his car and drives guard.
holds Harvey, ie while Angora proper manly appearance.
his wife und children out to and usually Prince
gather flowers and have Lea Thero is a small radio set, and rabbit,
likes 10
same Princess Anne is what her gather do
on the grass, gramophone, for both the Charles
father has proudly described on
Sometimes the Queen and as "a regular young lady," who royal children adore musle, the gardening too.
the Duke tako motion pictures noisier
Prince the better.
already seems to show an ap- Charles's special affection is
preciation of pretty frocks. She also, afterwards made into kept for the bagpipes, which he
Is a most distinctive child with litle Alm reet which is screened her pale Baxen curls and her at the Palace for the entertain- often describes as "a lovely
ment of family and friends. sound"
bly gay eyes so intensely blue, Ilo can sing quite well
Fleischwurst can be eaten colt himself and reasonably in tune TNCOURAGED by the Queen her features with such a strong
He must also learn French
Or you can let it simmer in boll Royal Mother with a gift of a minia family likeness to the for his age.
and he will have a music teach The Queen sometimes plays ture red
notes ing water for ten minutes spade
andrake, House of Windsor, She has a
er, picking out his first Chorles will often quicksilver personality, full of plano for the children to Prince
the old the
plano Prin- consists of lean beef, pork and upright and har now
ces Elizabeth and Princess pork fat, in equal parts Molher, the "Granny" who de-
baceous border, or carefully begun to want
Har Hartmann says there # lights to spend many hours with collect some tallen leaves and that Prince Charles does."
mother's kuce on these oc- no lond of music herself,
** W** Sausage for every taste: "In casef Prince
Charles and Princess twigs and wheel them away in The children are always en-
when ersions, wonders loudly
probably help him when he Anne and look after them when hir toy waggon,
couraged to share their toys and the lights go out. but promptly comes to practise his seales, and you haven't relished the ones All mechanical
playthings to refer to possessions as "ours" identifies the people un the their parents aro absent on hole
the guide his uncertain Angers just just mentioned, the portly master enchant him, while the greatest Instead of "mine". Princess many public duties.
possibilities but ters. joy of his life is to go for a Anne loves to copy her brother screen with shouts of glee. He as she did for her small daugh- butcher suggests these additional
recognises Princess Anne ride in the car, preferably the and when they are driving out enquires who is the little boy. But at present Prince Charles
Gelbwurst, ti that he's Charles shooting-brake, which he con- in the car and Prince Charles. The reply
is just a ilvely life boy whose favourite named after its siders far more
exciting than waves his hand to the watching meets with open disbelief. days are mainly filled with fun mustard yellow casing car Lice
the crowd, as the Queen has taught Obviously Charles cannot be up and amusements shared with his veal. en "ordines. Where he la
la him, Princess Anne promptly thero-when--ho-is-down her low very busy," ho once an
Mettwurst. A pale pink sourage Prince official mament A*
Inshioned of fine-ground,::, Jean- Charles's favourite ballads going is quite immaterial, un- waves both hands for good with Mummyl
less it is to the Zoo to see the measure. "People!". the crles Tho Queen har, a television
a nursery visitor, pork mixed with a trace of beet: are "John Brown's Body" and
elephants that never fail to delightedly, taking them for
favourite und pork fat? set in her private drawing-room nounced to
Soft on, butter," The British Grenndlers", both mats him rear with laughter. grunted as royal children must
at the Palace, where she likes looking up from his
the ad delicately flavouréd... A wonder- dimculty
book, dealing with of which have appropriato re-
liv so carly learn to do. frains to which he can thump
to view by candle-light which, ventures of Babar and Augus- ful sandwich spread. There is often great
she always thanke extremely
Line, the two French elephants, pleasant, The children are only.
"So'm I, echoed Princess allowed to looks in occasionally as
ELEPHANTS
SPECIAL TREAT
has
▸
WHEN Prince Charles is five learn to rldc. he, will
And with blutwurst, you of the royal should eat lots of pickles. Blut- taught by one grooms. He already
wurst is groaster than saibm, Shetland pony called Cloudy which it resembles. It is spiced cloves and copt at Windsor which he visits with when staying at Royal Lodga or the ancient Castle,
on
sing, and so also does the Queen scrabble happily round the her- quiet mischieh to do everything DIUNCE Charles, sitting on his Margaret used to play. wa
strong VOICE
the
ils flats and stamp his foot..as in keeping Prince Charles from
NO FUSS
he singa at the top of his clear, the Palace garages when the chauffeurs are taking down the strong voice.
Sometimes the gramophone is engines. He is the proud put on as a special treat; and of a small model car then the royal children listen presented by the people of DAILY life in the happily to lively Jazz numbers Windsor, Ontario,
Juring
nursery is always
pimentos,
cinnamon.
•
half pork-ne alt
amount
A. extraordinary craftsmanship, Hartmann
Jit
us, goes into the production wurst. In fact Germany is dotted a typical moment with butcher schools dedicated to
a special treat. Prince Charles, is Anne, nursing her white Brumas already devoted to Mutin the boar, royal Mule and the other puppeta He That was
kept has learnt their theme song, in the life of the two royal the wurst art.
of a happy
and ...normal and "Wo Want Mumin", which ho children, members and old English and Scottish parents" Candilan tour, and this simple often "dancing" he drives along the garden, devold ¡, folk songs,
of fuss. The Queen frequently renders, often ing family efrele being brought up At Muenchen-Gladbach, nóná tooling Suudly and has ruled
aut tho old Ing it as he walks along.. simply and without any ostentas. Anchen, la a school where every merrily to the music, up, and paths, down and round the room, squealing with joy.
Court tradition that everybody. Both the royal children love tion; loving and beloved, with eight weeks Sometimes he will take
a must bow or curtacy to a royal to epealt on the telephone, neces- not the least iden that their rutchers ecstatically joined by Susan and Sugar, the Queen's two Corgis, couple of Princess Anne's dolls child-it certainly did upent the early in comitant family to at mother is also their Queen,
- potential -- master produce an edible amumugo aighty-two feet long.