CONCLUDING THE REAL INSIDE STORY, OF THE GAY PRINCE, by SEFTON DELMER
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY, 9, 1956.,
Bernhard's Daughter,
The Future Queen
T
HE polace sentries
presented arms, the plowed police · held up the traffic, and the five they have of us crossed the wide motor road which passes in front of the royal palace Soestdijk.
at
"Pappi," as Prince Bernhard is known to his daughters, was taking the three eldest of them, their friend Rene,
t
In ali
now
The girls, for instance, art Since then all the princesses to choose whatever have been going to the local hobby or sport they want, with secondary school at Baarn, They one exception. "Pappi" insists are treated exactly like the
ali got to swim other girls and Join
11 OT not. school activities. whether they like "Fortunately," he says, "they But with all this democracy, all like swimming.”
the prince-applying his old But here is the limit to this technique of balance...is berly. Whatever the princesses imposing a curb of royal re- and dignity 011 the do take up they must take up ticence
and methodically young princess. To remind her theroughly
tepch them. of her status, orders have been with coaches
insists there given that hencefortly she In to Van Roc "Papp!" Serhard
be addressed
"Your Royal is to be no fooling around.
Princess Beatrix
has
taken Highnees." up sculpting. I was quite tm-
Ò pressed with Vilson she gave her father for Christmas. 143 @
most uncanny resemblance to Conmade Bulganin, The queen horself
has been a in favour of freedom and princesses. informally for the Almost tooP enthusiastically so, prchups.
nad my polf un their regular Sunday after-lunch visit to the stables.
Each of the girls had a bow! which we filled with currots Each had a horse of her to feed and fundie
The routine
THE prince
carrols
fuck a bowl
horse 10 his
DWF
and
wh the
wire
learnedly discussed the horses and thei condition princesses and Renee, the doughter of an ADC and t bett brought up with Prices Beatrix.
wap
To tell the Louth I myself a not over-interested in horses o
But FuttRv། horse talk. fascinated. The regular visit to the stables is part of the pinner's retire in the education of daughtern.
And there are few inter m
dications of u man's character than how he sels abuit bringing up his children.
دعا
shock
thing,
Her own lonely childhood was hedged in from the age of four with curtsving ladies-in-waiting which insisted and a protocol
And the prince is wondering whether he ought not tu have Inslated on this sooner
EUR
an educational measure in much the same way as boys In French schools, on reaching the age of 10, are given the dignity of o "vous" instead of the familiar
But the problem of the prin- cesses' titles is the least of the worries affecting the prince as
father at the moment.
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His main concern is how to
that The bittle princess must prevent his daughters being all affected by the crisis nl the precede
Occasions.
her eldera
ןדי
Now.
a curb is determined QUEEN Julians is determined grow up free from such inisery.
The same
has
linpatience with formality and pomp which
ban the made Queen Juliana curtsy from her court (much to of One ludies who the regret love curtsying) caused her sond Princess Beatrix called progressive school,
Tin
Over
Th faith Greet Holframist.
healer,
seems le
There cratitaly danger of the girls corning under the heater's spell.
nor
Though the prince (who re- fused
Hiran to discuss the case) will neither confirm deng information. I gather that
Miss
failure Hofmans much us cure common
! #
to
to t
had normal child-
rash of pimpies th
she Wie asked by OVCUNTOJAN members f the royal house- under- hoki. has completely
her mined
reputation
015
Pranks
In fact, 1 am told
they
u
ELIN'
Moreover, I have been watch ing him at this father be
days evor aduce these earliest when the Gay Price would
hurwever, prince, put a bottle of whisky in baby
and been through a Beatrix's pram
normal education. Nealer with the princesses. mother hexxi and u aform the namy-weith
of Coll- Juliana Joning in and pretend is mother (an aunt
the present fried von Cramm, ing to be horrified as well.
husband of Barbara Hutton) put And for amelier
a boarding schoo! Princess Beatrix lahkely one him through
her mother
from the age of 12, where the having to be restrained from al -Mus Holtmans' up pronks dry to cond day which, as the result of the prince used to get beaten faith healer crise, Beaux her regularly by the other boys for expense.
st and
Last Christmas they wanted tring prince
E self. I understand, believes may
to act a charade in which bourgeois like them. be quite neur
ut Berlin character after another where he took the come on and pronounce himself 1? As
University, would CXIXIT: you
Arst of
class the with much
skilful equivalent bulare between honours degree. Lightm
So when the prince discover- sind formality authoritative easy, cheerful informustify which ed that Trix." as he calls her, on very well characterises he general method was not getting
Ko end with the three R's at the of </eating with Bensle
How much he must wish he us-you-please and freedom-first
his she could
Tout down situatives.
Dut academy, he insisted that
1 slop 10 do vul more easily be
398417 should
unct down-to-the- Hofmans altair altogether. Now
'The school.
queen that he is brek in Holland you may be sure he will have a try. regretfully severed.
later he read law *l, he is h• •! tak
He is "Bernilo" to the quern und
In a Pidest orthodox
le family. "Berno” friends. The prince's name for the ground
de Lula."
to
E
herself cured
of some dilne,
TH
would
miraculously
The Gay Prince heard of the Just Gay Princesses' plan only in time. He put his fool down and stopped it.
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N
EXT time you are in
a plane, if you travel by plane, look down hard at the ground then look along the length of one of the wings. And imagine what
far below.
it would be like to get out of that plane and crawl along ↑
that wing....
That's what
Jackson did.
Norman
CROSS CHANNEL DINGHY RACE
COMPETITORS
"We're coming back Tuesday for Ascot."
THE British Commonwealth's greatest heroes-300 holders of· the Victoria Cross-paraded in London before the Queen last Tuesday to mark the centenary of the most treasured award for valour. They came from all walks of life, and among them were some who showed qualities outstanding even by the standards Already told: of these heroes. This series tells their stories. the story of midget submariner Magennis. Now an air saga.
FOR SHEER GUTS,
BEAT
He landed an
the alde of
THIS ONE... THIS
By Donald Gomery
He got out of his Lancaster bomber and erawled along that wing-
a Croffrey knany to put out a fire. "And I
cam) ankte of the other. Jackson was that Newnan was was doing pretty well too, s broke one leg and the prison
sumed killed. said Jackson, long, long, an a bad way,
"Wi afterwards. Pretty well. He With part of a shell in his time." back and the other part in saying his wife had had a baby.. his leg.
لام
crawled around He thought of the tie Klan he haul received that day
'LUCKY'
the himself in prison: "When I come (through "intelligence") out, if I ever come out, I'm go
missing, pre- Ing to have a good time for a
while real good time." ол brown
Jackeon, V.C.. had that good time.
that had the pay
celebrated bread and marge," said Jackson.
Warrant
Jackson, Officer
on
flight-engineer, got the VC, for mounted up back home.
Later, with £50 left,
how does through a
he
sputted a plece of land going for
£500.
And More
build.
hands
IL
Jackson began to With his
own burned
was symbolic, rently, this building of a new home, a new life, a new world... (The house his wife had lived in during the
had been destroyed by buzz-bomb.)
ww
that night on the wing of
Half-brother
Jackson had turned down it whe the year 1944.
plans. Of course. The
councă job offered him at the Latteaster was raiding the Ger- E crawled to a small house Geoffrey got the George Medal in
Jackson Went to A berik
end of the war. £4 10s. a week. man town of Schweinfurt that end knocked at the door. Malaya years after fighting the
All bandit in the end the bandits manager, asked him if he could He was a whisky salesman now. night
Jackson knew no German. Schweinfurt was
borrow £450, told him what it A good job. And the day's work miss. The raid was nearly over, he said when he opened the door killed him.
was fer. a man who
The bank manager over he sped to his place of The ack-ack had been fierce. wes "R.A.F." But he knew the
Well,
night like cumd down and looked at the land and built and built. till came the German man who opened the door was went
the word that, on the wing of a burning land-just a small piece of land
11 o'deck, summer and winter. in a violent rage:
at Hampton Hill, Middlesex. His friends "Churchill" came
rallied round, in time after plane, settle down to a life of
And agreed to lend Jacks the
Ron Taylor, for one, He is a First, there was the small money. (Bank managers were professional builder. "Couldn't that Jackson made to like that...once upon a time.) have done it without his help,"
says Jackson.
Now fighters.
Up went the Lancaster's wing in flames. So out went Jackson, time.
fire extinguisher in hand, Be- The man was pushed aside by hind
peace?
him his parachute pack his two daughters. They brought promise spilled
open
inside the pine him in, bathed his wounds. Two they grabbed hold of the cords. Jackson's clothes were on fire. in came the fighters again. Jack-
lovely girls. "I was lying there like Lord Rothschild," said Jack-
H afterwards.
son stumped over the wing of think 1 was pretty luck
Pretty lucky.
ta
With part
of
skin
the plane. Jackson had had it. Or
a shell in his back. so it come:l, Mery shells
the ripped through the plane,
The
burned off his hands and wrists, hands helding the parachute his face burned, part of a shell cords fet go.
14.g, both legs broken. Pretty lucky.
But Jackson waen't dead when he fell off the wing. He
They turned him over to the wasn't unconscious. The parachute half- Luftwaffe. That was all right. opened, and I too was in fire. The Luftwaffe treated him well. To hospital for 10- months, smouldering like a huge hand-
would tended kerchief that any moment would
by
British captured burst into flames. The parachute doctors. ("Wonderful fellowe."
and Then to prisen camp. burning too, vrere
And the hands his
already first man he met there was his raised those hands half-brother, Geoffrey Hartley,
and Coldstream Guards. and down the Norman knew that Geoffrey
orde
Jacken, burned.
03
ran
could
high
he 05 them up cords to put out the fires.
was missing, presumed killed.
BUCKINGHAM
PALACE INVESTITURE: WITH GROUP CAPTAIN LEONARD CHESHIRE, V.C. (LEFT), DATE: NOVEMBER 13, 1940,
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
The Baronet Who Had A Letter
on
From Buster
Crabb Is Upset
by
now
The house was begun at the end of 1947. It was Anished by the end of 1948. A lovely house -four bedrooms, two living
tiled bathroom trims,
and shower, big kitchen, with garden back, front, and side.
MODEST
FIGHT people live in that
bis pretty house. Jackson, wife, and their six children. For one can build for the future in many ways Ian, one and a half. David, thiroo and a half, Poter five and a half, Brenda, seven and a half, Pauline, nine and halt, Brian, 12-all race happily through the house that Jackson, bullt.
balleve in big families," sald Jackson, V.C. "I was
adopted when 18 months old."
The most modest of What was it like
men
THO
night
on the wing of the plane? shrugged his big shoulders. "Welt...you get a pretty good slip-stream out there, you know After all, people do 90 miles an hour on a motor-bike and think nothing of it."
It hardly seemed the same to mc.
"And if it's coming to you it can come in many ways.
had a wing-commander
Wo
just
and Anishing his second tour of ope
the
his Paria. municated to
defence country squire. He is, in fact, memoirs.
out, a painter of considerable dis superb stuff CIR FRANCIS ROSE, the counsel
It is, too. The Gene through everything. Laid Wüs publication
timec Crabb, he says, wis a very tiriction.
for a big spread on for him. Then 46-year-old baronet, old friend of his (ho calls him He had until quite recently a the anniversary of his famous as he walked from his plane to who created a stir by claim- "Crabby"),
the
to flat over June 18 appeal
vers and France and
the officers' mess lotter large and beautiful
station ing he had received a letter written on the notepaper of the looking Notre Dame, which he over the BBC, and it covers the a
Jockom pazed through
e van hilt him" areal, from the missing frogman, Portsmouth hotel in which Crabb lost, and he how lives in what period from the spring of 1942
to the liberation of Paris,
window, pest his car, his garden. stayed before, his disappearance was once his servant's bedroom Commander Crabb, posted was a brief note saying he was in the same building.
Thirty-seven years old, thick the day of his dis now in funds "because I have
These are the highlights: This small room he has trans-
hair, thick-set, handsome→→→ could formed
admirable taste A closely reasoned, extremely "Those doctors did fine job," appearance, is one of the old my invention" and
per ingenuilly into a miracle of moving and hitherto unpub- said Jackson. The burns on his most colourful members of now ropay a small debt.
compactners. An effect of space lished letter to the late President face don't show now. Only the the British community in
THE SQUIRE
created
differently Rosevelt outlining de Gaullo's burns on his hands, After Crabb's disappearance, Paris,
Sir Francis eilised the possible coloured walls and as the need view of his own role in the war,
MISSING..... for as kitchen disclaiming any ambillon. Importance of the letter and arises it
with just one small personal power after the war, kitting-room or bedroom, fied among his private
it
The walls are decorated with
and pointing out the dangers worry at the moment. This papers. Later when the decided to show it to the authorities, he Henry Moore, Graham Suther Inherent in treating with former V.C. celebration business. The
land and Christian Berard Vichyltes.
Invitations cald decorations wit found it had disappeared.
originals.
be worn," said Jackson. And........... He then went to see the Bellisk
The President did not delen at the war's end, ho had for
gotion to claim his other medals: to reply to this. letter.
A verbalim report of the Atlantic Star, the 39-46 Elsenhower. Star, the Aircrew, the Victory convermtion with At one point Eisenhower said to in Europe, and the rest, a de Gaulle: "I must confess that go I've got only one medal
.mo
Sir Francie came to res the other day in a state of còn- siderable agitation,
serves
He was upset for two reasons: first that reporta concerning
Sir Francis was a great ปาก Crabb leiter which die Ambassador, Sir Cedwyn Jobb, appeared from his flat some and told him the full story. He friend of Gertrude Stein, who time ago, had attributed to him does not for a moment believe was the first to buy one of his and he has theories
paintings in 1939. whatch were palpably that his son's arrest is in any decorated the cookery book. silly: and secondly, that his 20- way linked with the matter.
Sicin's com year-old son who is a Spanitas Sir Francis, with his stocky written by Mia subject, has been held for the figure, ruddy complexion, addle panion Alice B. Toklas. MEMOIRS-2 pasteix wooks in a French dion to shuff, and beautifully prison without the sintailed cut slightly twoody Engish THE second volume of
eral English
Grullo's da changos having yet been com clothes, looks like an
MAN
I have harboured some, unjust to wear sold, Jackson. suspicions of you!!! De Gaulle Gien- responded in his painstaking
war English! "You não n'man.”
I wouldn't worry about, that Jackson, V.C. I wouldn't worry Jabout that a bit.