THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1957.
Do their friends tell a lot of the story?
The compromise
many 'marrieds'
DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS
DIFFERENT FRIENDS
DIFFERENT VIEWS
of
understand
by Anne Edwards
ince Albert wrow,
"n couple joined together in love and unmity. Now Victoria Is the almost ready to give up seme- - thing for my suke. I everything
for her sake,"
THIS IS Chapter 2 in a personal interpreta- tion entitled The Ten Year Milestone Marriage, written to mark the 10th anni- versary
of Queen's wedding to The Prince Philip. author now examines a situation known to many people of lesser status
than royalty.
And now-
TRIS
pattern could. I suspect, be true of today's inyal couple. get along That they famously no one doubis. The MORE than 100 few private glimpses Int: we ever see of them reflect a warm the and natural family life. "You of won't be able to jump Up and down on these beds," the Queen this told
Prince Charles, when she
years ago Queen
England whom present Queen so much resembles was writing a letter to a friend.
look in to Cheam School.
Visitors with business at the
have Palace
reported seeing,
Coddler Prince Charles of crawl from beneath his father's
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It was the first year Victorin's marriage to the desk, or the royal father giving she his children the time-honoured handsome
fatherly piggyback.
husband
deeply loved. This is what
she wrote:
Bu
even
more
is L probably prized highly by her husband, whose childhood memories of royalty were a sad and unsuccessful story of shoot- ings. Pict and exile, and who brought up in a foreign country by an aunt.
OF HOW when che visited Cambridge she said: "I'm co glid to be here. 1 have passed
often through it
011 my journey to Newmarket Races."
AND OF HOW when she Jeturned from
vhit state abroad, the Fleet lined up to greet her were astonished (and real bet delighted too) to read
"I feel," he said recently to a friend, "I have got family life of my own at lost."
From this basis the rest of the nags in marriage--the differing backgrounds,
slittering Intért, the different friends- dissolve in an intelligent com- promise,
had salfor who Philip, the
sticks to Kaneked about a bit.
The Quee his old chums. royal princess. in a priveled palace-sticks just us rmly to hers. And the rest they share.
Off-beat
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HERE painted by a man knows. them "Philip Ilkes
1.
He talks about them with the "I have always had my tolerance that reveals a delight beat people, he likes the way they 1436. ed parent: "If my children are Suppose he anything
said by," he to NO
utterly own way...
he feels his TV
in their Col gory scene in should endeavour to thwart about a
like pany-people and oppose me in what I lm, "there is nothing they like
Uth Fox or Douglas Fairbanks. like, what a dreadful thing better than a little blood."
The it would be."
Queen prefers her childhood friends,
At the same time Albert was complaining to a friend: "I am only the husband, and not the master in the house."
So solid
This kind
of family
the close circle she grew up with, the
only people
sce
with he is highly prized by
fcels whom she the Queen, for she was
Beau- brought up to i. in one relaxed-the
Abergavennys few palaces left which forts But 10 years later they had of the
crumble, the Buccleuchs. married never seem likely to hit опц recipe for
you against the solid background of happiness which many a hus-
that s Mike Parker's only monarchy "I wish the band would endorse:
side by side counts in the world. us." Fou could be here to
Rupert Nevill, or
place
face
with
Or
Baron's against Lord Ogilvy
Lord Euston--you will get the exact difference
Xriends between his
and hers."
picture
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That the Arst message alter eficial greetings were exchang- od was: "Are the Lingßeld races running the afternoon?"
A memory
"WE
her
the most dignified, dulfful dis- ciplinarians This kingdom
ever seen in its history.
Her will
has
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TINS difference summed up in a little scone which tooit pince soon after her Corona- tion. She was on a state visi! to Northern Ireland and had e
with very heavy day
many exacling engagements,
In the afternoon she went out to the showground to a parade uf ex-Servicemen, and then moved over to another part of the showgrounds to atferd 0 gathering of. 17.000 children.
It was
The extremely hot. programme required the Queen to walk along a narrow, roped- eff path through the crowd of knew excited
children, Noting the heat and the excitement, Prince Philip said: "You'd better take the car," and signalled for the driver to come up.
talk to
never what to Majesty
about," Lady De La Bure re- marked, "until my hu- md rode a horse from The Mansion House through London to a lunch date.”
The
EDWARD ALLCARD
the round the world lone yachtsman cables from the Canary Islands, first -landfall of his Atlantic voyage.
ร้านเ
Las Palmas. cyes widened and my
M mouth hung open with
umazement. A large island had suddenly appeared on the horizon where a short time before there had been nothing. As suddenly, it disappeared.
Then, as my 10-ton ketch Sea Wanderer was lifted high on an Atlantic swell, there it was again.
Land Ho! Land Ho!" shouted with rising
The excitement.
haze had magically evaporat cd, giving me my landfall UTL the auter Canary Islands. I had been eight days at sea since leaving Tangier.
SeaWanderer
There he 10da, perched din The Mullarkk
Harry the Hawk
gives me a fright
During breaks in the
NEW SCARE
Being fond of bananas I
com happy la my solitude. The hills had decided to call in at Las mentary I read a book on Corn- and valleys of the sea are often Palmas, on the island of wall set in the eighteenth cen- preferable to the Jealoustes and
tury.
fallings of mankind. Gran Canaria, on my way frowned. and Incross Queen
The calm sea and clear hori the Atlantic. My said: "You can go in the car
celestial navigation and I was able to arrival at Las Palmas itself, were ideal for three days after sighting plot my position with much ac- the outer islands, was ex- curacy that determined the traordinary: I did not ac precise spot in Casablanca
which the radio beacon trans- tually see the land until mitter was situated and Casa- after I was in port.
blanco was 50 miles away.
Verdict
But for myself I have only if you like. I'm going to walker admiration for the way she and she did, with Prince Philip handles her hobby with as much slightly abashed, in the rear. professionallam as she handles who Far lab, And a lot of sympathy. well After all, you can rely on
oll- horse not to write memoira, au
HOWEVER their interests differ and widen, twe - things~~ bind them Arm- ly together.
"JUST as strongly as ho believes that tho Monarchy m v 3 t change to live, the Quee believes that it will weaken
Different, back-
grounds and different
It
friends Jend to
differing interests.
chances too fast."
IF I am to be fair I
In a pitch black night of must quote Prince wind and rain had found Philip's own verdict an
the job, given to thethe lights leading to safety friend in whom he confided his by navigating on Spanish
mbidons when he got engaged dance music.
Their
family and their job. Years ago when
Philip
engaged
was 10
first the
10 years ago,
Queen
fold he
a
Glend: meim make this job.
to
L. YUCCESS
of
I am not
going to be just a polile shadow behind the Throne. I shall strike out
due course, in my own You will see."
way.
ת!
We have seen, So
out
No, this is not a mis
"The work has turned ten times tougher than I ex-print; I "homed in" on the pected I to be, but I am on local radio station, using the reverse side. ten times happier in it than I ever ex-my direction finder. pected to be,"
I don't presume to know which of them has the right view about whether or not 口
I monarch should be human.
hard work.
SO ACCURATE
N announcer broke into the musle to give a gale warning complete with sound effects ---- rather tactless of him, I thought
at
progressed 20 miles in 24 hours, Sea Wanderer, meanwhile, record low for the trip.
Scare
HAD another
after dark. I had just finished sup- per when I heard the sound of an engine-close, My boat was running without lights, as the ocean had seemed deserted,
1
.for the
deck, expecting to be run down
I dashed in panic
Dead ahead was brilliant 31 W23 A large bird gave me a fright light; bul, hold ont that night.
than the planet. I had gone forward nothing more
Venus. The noise of the mator to adjust one of the sails when had come from the radio! It was
New
a bird as big as an owl abruptly up Into my face. When the next day that the island was popped up out of the sea. Not daylight came, there he
having a chart of this group of perched on the bulwarks.
Islands I could not determine my
I christened him Harry the distance offshore by taking corn- he pass bearings. Instead I used my Howk. (All right, I realise may have been a black-backed sextant on the sun more than 90 weed grabbler or something, but million miles behind the land, to me he was Harry the Hawk) and found I was only 13 miles
GN.
He remained on board for two days then vanished as mysteri ously us he had come. He had down had enjoyed being photographed, and the of calms, when I was below he would reached 15 degrees. Another 'flat
The voyage up to then been a mixed bug
do know that in him she has a views far his influence has husband with clear-cut
and been confined largely with a monumental capacity for
immense drive, a fighter "t the time.
in Jids
home life, his children's schooling, his own public appearances.
Just as strongly as he believes that the Monarchy
In her he has a wife with
precisely the same qualities.
And both of them are on our must side "To make," as Philip sald, change to live, the "this monarchy business work." His are mostly scicatife and Queen believes that 1 will athielle, fust curs, airplanes, weaken if too much changes loo scientific discovery, polo, yacht- fast.
ing, football, cricket.
BIC
horses,
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Hers
horsea, She Imposes
herself horses. Many are the sly standards of dignity, duty, and stories told of the Queen's devo- discipline learned from her tien to borses:
father and grandfather-two of
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"IF THERE ISN'T ANY LEAK, WHAT'S THAT
POOL DOING THERE?"
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PUZZLE FOR PLUMBERS
Then up went the barometer,
went the wind and temperature in the cabin
sudden blows, thick weather and peer at me through the port- calm.
clear.
holes.
ENRAPTURED
A fresh enst wind was blowing from the Mediterranean when I sailed from Tangier, and Sca Wanderer studded past the great
LONE again, I listened to the Cape Spartel, the north-west AB.R.C.
progrname "Desert corner of Africa. When, 70
Stokowski, miles farther on, che was be- Island Dises.
one of his records, had chosen calmed. I listened on the radio
I won- to the howl of racing car as Tchaikovsky's ́Sotlíudo.
people have they hurtled round the Grand dered how many
listened so enraptured to this Prix course
A at Casablanca.
piece of music in such a lonely great thrill,
setting.
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a tan While cultivating
ail over, I laundered 'clothes, dish- cloths (not before time!), washed my hair.
and
3 had heard that thieves are
at for numerous
Los Palmas
and (happily this is not true) I wanted to put up a spirited defence. I cleaned the protec» tive grease of my revolver and made the water boil round floating box as the gun barked six times.
To get a move on, I ran the diesel for some hours All the
at first
The trade winds blow erratic- ally off the Moroccan coast. They started Alfully. And gel ting all I could out of the boat, wind came back-light I managed days runs of 85 then then stronger and stronger with driving rain squalls. Night 77 mile before the wind piped 1:0 in
earnest and the sea descended; but I made Las Palmas all right, thanks to the became rough.
danco music.
I was my birthday, I have spent.
Besa happier ones.
The voyage had taken me 11 Gala days.
the
squirted over the dock
force rain squalis habed
reeling vessel. The wind flow By the way, did I tell you? Into the north and I drova Thore is a shortage of bananas Sea Wanderer through it all, here at the moment.
knocking up 34 miles in the
day.
and
My dried cod got WCL began to stink. I got wet, cold, and weary after 18 consecutive hours at the wheel. The seas of night broke white with phos- phorescence, an unnerving sight, The sky cleared and I steerod fest towards Venus and then the setting moon.
Working on the wildly lurch- ing dedit I then rigged the self- steering gear of twin staysalis.
The boat rolled more, travelled slower, but ran on unattended Before the heavy seas. One trave broke with a rose, exploded on the stern, and went a heavy'sbowes : of - spray··"down the open hatch
right on to my back,
I happened to be on my hands and knees on the cabin floor, drawing a rough large-scale chart of the Canary Islands as my general chart of the Atlantic had proved to be too awkward to work on. Da
Late in the afternoon I stood in the hatch, amur of tea in my hand, and gazed about me,
| POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
mand while we've, on the subject of leaks, I would
- mak'the' Rt, Hen, memberį. Who spilled the beans about Rea Bertok's baby? 1
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