THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1958.
Page
Parker of the Palace
THE DUKE OF
OF EDINBURGH'S. PLANS ARE
SWITCHED
DO YOU KNOW THE MAN
WHO HAS TO HANDLE the headACHES ?
by CHRISTOPHER HALL
the spring of 1917 They Ward Best
Commaefer store before
em.
John Michel Avison
KN Parker,
Er fired), received from the Duke of Edinburgh a brief, Blunt letter,
It Kave hum the Theat hush-hush
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me:
when they were chestres en herra in the Gary Const Patrol, but Super Flee Wib one' Year's diflegener 14 thetr Me tool
on
-
teller. They be
men stimmbate friends,
Lane
1998. Nu night from) Duke's engagement to Prime brain Aurshlag where い cess Elizabeth. And it sud: mater
the Duke, Parke hart
the auto #1
THE SISTER
naval family
"What are you doing Tapetes days? De von like it"
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• Mari Parkri
Welts H.
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aweting with
Parilcers
not, I need an equerry
The reply
was equally naval in its precision: "I am selling pope, I do not enjoy it. Delighted In weep your offer.**
In this
fashou Michael Parker joined the service of the Duke of Edinburgh,
A that
e-kuetalerstrat's conne Portsanulla He got to pro-
If the Baltic of the stigagementa la Londen, in the Pacifie They met nitain in provinces, abrasi, and so on Australia and rented their friendship
Whenever the Duke under- takes to make an billet visit
The end of the war brought Michael Parker remembers this Make sure the Dukes ja disappointment to Michael Pale
one jump aheni
Parker. He was invalided out of the Navy with
stomach and Lexik a job as salesman for a rope fnturer This was only tents- ponry, fra te planned to re- Tuen to Australia and bunki a
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to
That
that
11 weeks
began to look as if the " beforehaING hin clewis in Ritteręci Puince was being used to help
with techni works burrowed Mary's publicity from the high Mien that when the Duke arrives at
ever it is he is able
factory or ster) mil or what. ask 10 intelligem questions and make Intelligem crielsms.
eareer in the diplomalle service there.
11 family's panskje WIN booked Packing Mel bogel,
the letter from Prince inter-comm. when Philip arrived.
thai 411 nocopted
20
I answering Michart Purker tough stinument. He becam right-buri 10:23 to the most high-powered rayal personalitz 1er Britain has ever had. Parker
Mas quickly took them apart Price tip Went Mediterrchenh Mike
w!
went in Scotland to ineet Wren Enovn Allan whom he married
1943
antel was jagle i la thiet 102 tups of Tie East Count both
But w rounded them when were serving in the heal
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William Hickey
NARS
NOW FOR 400
400 mph,
SAYS CAMPBELL
fust
London
Curs Ri
Suld Live Duke UJ Argy.i. Wonderful. wonderful,
slow cars. They ah. Just the his father." sorbed me.
There was Donald Cunje- bell's var. And the Duke of Kent's ear.
And the car that beat the
London Brallic gam
First.
I
will tell you about Campbell.
1 talked to the Jud after he ack announced his alic tention in pret. the world water :)))) record beyond the
I was Donald's father, Sir Mai alm, who first trays, dect at more Ban 300 miles an hour o321
304 311
Sopinber Lond 1935 Tik avelage speed uver two oute was 299.674.
And now Donald elma to ge 100 miles an hout faster
***
And
PLANNER
at
the Duke's secreta
ht plans all
employer engagement? -ankl he s than any other member of the Royal Family
He obtalan all the to
needed 1111 ther Duka Sperches--but he often uhe work, the speeches He accompanies The Duke everywhere he goet a-rally
he be with stone now
in the royal yacht Britannias a the Labin Decan-aid he the nun who had to handle th beurtei of ther switch
111
Also on the desk is the Duke's
At any mGATINEA the Duke inny flick the Mastel switch and esl ull his staff into
THE SAILOR
Parker and beard...
TOWEL
while serving in the Pacifie
the Duke's plans because of the having to leave their desks,
| Soogapore riots
'T'he staff work behind t present Tour Was Parker's
conference without any of them
"Now, listen, chaps.
ive
says, and the conference begins, For the slick machinery be- hind the
Duke's every move-
But Mice knew this was not 20, for Andy Neatrour, who was handling Mary's publicity, in a great friend of his.
Together they planned tu beat the whispers. Andy carried on a ezie¬nian compaigu in Fleet Sheet to get the Milke Parker Fum Mary's cropped billing
Mike, for his part, mut quiet and waited wisely for the fuss to die down Gradually I did, and Mary established her own Indiept plent reputation.
the
have
HIS HOME
wanted Milse could Kince-and-favour 24 residence for himself and his Canuly He profers amall house in Kensington, where his wife and their two children, can mix rmally amt unobtrusively with the neighbours.
Continual attendance upon the Bukr
Edinburgh involves much americe of his family life. Hut the family remains unlled and Mike slips away whenever he can to put in sonic time with them.
He thinks the sacrifice is worth while. He knows that he has the confidence of the Queen
made their life his own.
He has learned that a mDA con do a first-cinss job playing
'wald the Duke travel through meat, Michael Parker is elegy and her husband because he has the Middle East before joining responsible, Helped by General
the Brilunnia at Mombase?
that
is getting In
To
the wake of one,
It h nat 65 minutes dabve from Kensington to Laly dets Alxport the other day.
"Boy"
Duke's Browning, the
he has built it up
Treasurer,
That question had to be pta from cratch in the early days secund fiddle.
the Foreign Offices
Could the Duke visit the where Islands on Seychelles
Mukarios
in
came back in 25, lates The tail-light of General Alfred | Archbishop Gruenther, the Supreme Allied exite? That question had to br Commander in Furope,
answered by the Colonial Office.
The general. who retires next
What about Ceylon, where three-day month, arrived for a farewell visit to London, inetuil- there has betri
and илхан sg an audience or the Queen controversial change of NOW-100 m.p.h.
no police There was
escort Government? That was a quiƏ-
Lions fr
rela. traffle. MORE about'
through the rush-hour
Commonwealth Friends
The Duke of but very police constable un tions. beet te ding nie point duty was expecting the
Thuso problems Michael about h souped up" model general and rushed him through.
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West End botol the Parker foresaw. He put them to beam Hapier (K 7] he bought general bounded in. pumped the appropriate Ministrice "and Michael Fitzgerald got the answers in plenty of tably this year the car he hall porter Daves uch he won't let the by the hand and gave him a big time.
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chaufleurs drive it.
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He has had a new engine pul J chief guest a
the same type that ray. dinner given by the
National,
the driver Peter Collins has la Sporting Club Lo Duuk
As Mille-Miglia class-winning water spot ord
Flatter. Coniston, when he pai
It has twin carburetters bird across the water
spectus meat-resisting exhaust
take *
in hour.
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The general was in a tearing hurry-to go to a meeting and make a broadcast,
He had no time Io talk -- except to say of his future: "I'm not sure what
8.30 START
JEUT-COMMANDE A 130 unually at
PARKER
at Clarence House,
But i would be a mistake to rogard Michael Parker as just a good administrator. He is also a close friend of the Duke of Edinburgh. Palace lite hos not weakened the links formed in Navy days.
PRIVATE
LIFE
IT was Parker who gave the
death, He tapped on the doct of the room at Saguna Lodge, Kenya, in which the Duke and his wife were resting.
fow
To his desk in Buckingham Palace between these two old friends.
to do in my retirement. I don't think I'm fitted for politics."
IN PASSING
speed l well over 100 miles quEY are saying that during
toys is hour,
to tell me: "Now, about
WHEN 1 will make the attempt
on the land sperd record, Not for at least two years, will be at Utah in the autumn of 1958.
"We began our experiments a year ago. We have so far done 20,000 hours เช tests und rescurchi.
"We have "Wo
unother 25,000 hours of testing and retesting
do.
"But Britain has just
GOT
to put the record over 400 miles an hour."
He told me the engine to be used would be
Bristol
Proteus 705, similar to those in the airliner Britannia, The world's greatest engine, so far, he said.
"We have
the
Government backing us to the . The Ministry of Supply has pro- mised every support,
It has the finest
сп-
in the world, We have superior technical ability, and with our knowledge, wo CILI koop Britain just where the stands-ON THE TOP. That I mean to do"
I wished him luck. He smiled, sold: "Thanks, Hickey. хий need it."
It had been Donald's night of
nights.
cup
He had received a Britain's camp from Billy Butlin, and a for 20,000 towards
ind in
keeping Blucijird' a
the top, Sitting alongside was chairman Lord Aberdare. What diki he tainic of Campbell's new surprise record bidy
Absolutely alooring. Who Britain is a decaderit ion? In this field, we are at the for. So, let's shout le from
Banka Lond: Glampilli, “Magn
MAN IN A HURRY
AN
I
ND Anally-slow curs.
discovered that there is only one thing as good as beinat
traffic V... to beat London's
between the last meeting
On the wall behind him hang Nasser and Nehru, the Egyptian
series a
of multi-coloured dictator remarked there were only two statesmen in the world charts listing the Duke's forth
coming engagements, The dif- he really admired.
ferent
represent dif- colours replied "And who,"
His "is the other one,
ferent kinds of engagements:
sister Mary came over (COPYRIGHT)
joint functions with the Queen, from Australia to build herst!!
Calmly he asked for moments of private converse- tion with the Duke, Oulside the door he told him the news,
There was no need for words
The Duke turned and went in by 8.30, even though he has
to tell his wife that she was been officinity accompanying the Duko up
the Queen, 10 midnight previous evening.
Parker never allows his Bife to interfere with private hio public
Once job.
to his intenso embarrassment and through no fault of his own, it did
Nehru,
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