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PART 2
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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1957.
LADY ELIZABETHI RE- PLED: "NO. NOT UNTIL HE COMES AND ASKS IIMSELF." The Duke ret himself In it, Once more speech falted. Pull- ing
serup of paper from his pocket he proposed in writing.
Lady Elizabeth accepted him from duty, but soon returned his love. Queen Mary was porticu- larly approving: "She is not ore of these modern girls, thank goodness."
Tue marriage, which look place in Westminster Abbey on April 20, 1923, was by no means Kine Coplcius and tho Beggar Dinid. Lady Elizabeth came from distinguished Scot- tish family. At the samo 11 was a break with tradition for a British: Prince to marry out- side the ranks of royalty usually German,
The last one to do it as also a Duke of York: the brother of Charles 11 who himself be- came King as James II. Th marriage too produced twu doughlers: Mary H and Queen Anne (who is derd). Otherwise The less said about James I the better. Before that we should have to go back to the later wives of Henry VIII, ́also not a happy parallel.]
HAPPINESS
The new Duchess brought to her husband more than private happiness. She brought encouragement and strength to face his physical handloops.
The Duke set out to fight the
heditation in hi aperek He
Three royal brothers say their farewells
The Duke and Duchess of York are about to leave for their Australian tour of 1927. The Prince of Wales and Prince Henry (now Duke of Gloucester) zo aboard the Renown. And the Prince of Wales gives the Duchess a parting klas.
found an Australian Expert, the way he broke new ground Lionel Logue; and after years of and showed himself as much eport overcaine his defcat,
Ü
man of the twentieth century as
No one who hear: George V1 bls elder brother, the Prince of broadcast would have supposed Wates.
that na Duke he had found pub-
it
whisper
In quieter Rames this depart ment showed itself in the Duke of York's Camps,
where 200 factory lads and 200 public school boys shared on open-air life for a week each year.
may have been reminded of childhood days with his grand- fother, Edward VII. It was
not certainly
his world. But what was wrong with modern ways, clever talk, and amart women for those who liked it? One of the smart women who Edward VIII was Mrs Simpson. This was the only time
thefuture Duchess of Windsor met her "in-laws." She drank a cup of tea, chatted guily--and departed In the royal car.
lle utterance almost beyond him. The Duke of York was tho But the attentive listener night rat member of the Royal have heard
setempanied frum Family to interest himself deep- Logue just before the Kingly and with knowledge in the broadens for the fir that affairs of industry. The first, "Now take it quietly, Sir."
at any rate, since his prototype, The Prince Consort,
THIS. LIKE MUCH ELSE IN GRORGE VT. LIFE, WAS A George V had visited factorles TRIUMPH OF CHARACTER, to raise morale during the First OVER DIFFICULTIES THAT World War, but he bad little WOULD HAVE DEFEATED A greso of either the mechanicnt LESSER MAN,
or the social problems involved. The Duke of York was adroit with his hands. He could work prin-
There were still traces of the old trouble. Both ry Duke and lathe, understood the King he preferred the carefully ciples of engineering, and prepared programme to the un- recognised, too, the human side expected. If taken by surprise, of the question.
he would sometimes By out
savagely. And he never found
a Logue to cure his ill-temper
for him.
TN the years of marriage the
Duke of York was more and
Bor
publie
E
THE FOREMAN
more attracted by the happiness H became a different mon when he was having a of private life. Ile desired machine explained to him. His neither sensations applause, and once said con face would light up. He
absorbed, his shyness all for- feme seems to be that I am the t fother of Princess Elizabeth.”
placoutly: "My chic! cluim
ta
Was
THE NEWSPAPERS CALLED **THE INDUSTRIAL 115 BROTHERS
Despite his admiration for HIM George V. he did not follow his PRINCE."
The Duke himself attended camp for a day, carefully al tired in informal dress, His visit always ended with the alnging of Under the Spreading Chistil-Tree round the camp- fire, a happy occasion for All concerned.
Thus the years passed in quiet content. Fomily life ab- sorbed the Duke's attention. Ho could safely leave politics and glamour to his elder brother.
Nor did the death of George V much alter the even tenor of the Duke's whys. The cldot brother was now Edward VIII, with rich store of popularity to draw on and the zest to do it.
Throughout 1930 the Duke of York had little Inkling of what was to come. He read the daily newspapers as millions of other Enguistumen did that year with- out taking alarm. He never saw the American news maga- zine Time, and was probably unaware of its existence. OI course, be knew that Edward VII was introducing modern
and there: allowing the Beef- enters to dispense with their beards and threatening, to instal centrol heating at Bulmerál.
faker's example in the treat- HAD A MORE INTIMATE habits into the Monarchy here ment of his own children. The DESCRIPTION: "THE FORE- two Princesses were dangerously MAN."
near being spoiled. Certainly
they
escaped the hardships Even George V shared the which had marred the youth of joke. He said at the time of the the earlier generation.
General Strike: "This doom'l
The Duke seemed Indeed I concern me. It is the Duke of very urdinary Prince. Yel in Yurk's department.",
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One autumn day Edward call- ed on the Yorks with a party
of his smart friends. The Duke
TOPS EM ALL!
NEW M3
that
Suddenly the news was out, The crisis exploded. The Duke of York still felt remote and unconcerned, it did not cross his mind that anything could interfere with the course of his brother's duty or that this course might be itself unclear. Ho regretted his brother's troubles, sympathised with them, but re- mained aloof.
Now, a bolt from the blue indeed, there came the tele- phone call. The Duke learned that within 48 hours he would be King,
NEXT WEEK:
The King and
his brother
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