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"Private Smithers! No ammunition!.
And a dirty olive brunch!"
...HIS ROLE AMONG THE COURTIERS...IN THE ARMY...IN THE FUTURE
Into a Yorkshire tailor's shop he went for a couple of battledress blouses he had had altered.
They were mixed up with those of a fellow officer Lieutenant A. C. Heber-Percy.
"Hey," yelled the Duke to Heber-Percy, "You've got mine. Can't you tell, it's the one with the row of medals." The decorations both of them are those of the coronation medals of his uncle, King George VI, and the Queen.
But despite his jests the habits of royalty have possessed him as certainly as the moon possesses the sea.
And there is the maller of He the Duke's future marriage.
is bound by the Royal Marriages Act, of
The Queen
course
would have to give her consent. Provided the Duchess of Kent agrees, there slipuldn't be much dimeulty, even though the new bride would, more likely than not, be the seventh lady of the land,
The Phone Call that
Disappoints hostesson
marriage is The
So far such
nowhere in sight. Duke is content with the Army and the vaty laughter of the fancy free. Although his girl friends are many they are by Do means his major concern.
The Duke is still at that stage where a new tank can be more entrancing than a night out. Indeed, there have been many instances where matronly hostesses, fully fussy at the prespect of his arrival at their daughter's party, have felt the chandeliers gleam lille less brightly after the telephone had rung, and the dual voice has murmuted that he is
is very sorry but he has to be on duty.
to
fond mothers and even of wure sure that the King ap- Very eligible 1 lovely distress for their daughters.
LOUISE DE CHIMAYE, daugh- sancter of Belgian Prince Alphonse
proved the match.
Then He rarely keeps company
Coppins was a with one particular girl for long, tuary for the Prince and Prin but the feeling at the Pulace s ceas. that if
if the Duke fell in love he wouldn't find himself in the The Hope In His situation that afflicted Princess Margaret and Feler Townsend.
In the valm of Coppins, that
backwater of Buckinghamshire,
է
de Chimaye. They met and there was anore dancing, this time in o Berkeley Square night club, Since then they have seen each other ugain on the Riviera. Mother's Hoart
There is CARINA BOYLE, daughter of a Hampstead buai- WITH such an attitude 10-
лc man; MARIGOLD
4 wards young lovers It would BROADHURST, routing country house in
major's arid PENNY where ostentation and pomp be incredible if the Duchess doughter have had no place, the Duke has should embrace the role of the D'ERLANGER, whose father is been given the most democratic heavy mother where her own the 8.0.A.C. chief. bringing up of the senior mem- son is concerned. Though there He fs little doubt that in her secret bere of the Royal Family. is also deeply attached to his heart she would be filled with mother and her views on matri- joy if the Duke should propose mony are plain for ull to know. to one of the many foreign re-
Jalives
whom to introduced him.
But at the moment the Duke le busy living up to the proverb that there is a deal, of safety in numbers.
Many girl
friends
-with the
accent on blondes
Even royal hostesses have had and Mrs this experience of the martial Kelso in honour of their, three daughters, Evelyn, Anne, and enthusiasm of the Duke ol Kent. Last year he was invited Gillan. by Queen Juliana to attend Princess Beatrix's coming-out party on her eighteenth birth- day.
The Duke politely replied that he couldn't get away from his depot.
a
When he does head for the bright lights the Duke has marked laste in feminino com- pany. Few of the girls are titled, hardly ever are they on The fringes of the Court.
His behaviour can be some. what cavalier. So much so that most other men would be sharply prompted to mind their party manners.
And He Forgot To
Who are the friends.
Then come the girls he met at Catterick. There is VALERIE LAWSON, whore father, Sir Ralph Lawson, owns Catterick She is fond of race course. Jeans and sweaters and does washing up,
and gardening, housework h
the
Lawson's seventeenth century home,
"Eddie," she says, "is always
105 sho
Duke's
girl
charming and his parties are al- ways very goy.
Another horse-loving girl- There is CHARLOTTE friend is CAKOL PEASE. Sho BOWATER, the niece of an ex- olso runs the local Girl Guides, Lord Mayor of London, The Tall and gay, she is the daughter
landowner Duke met her at St Tropez of
Major Phillp when they were both house Pease, of Sledwich Hail Barnard guests of a Belgian banker..
Castle. They wero Introduced bry Lender of the local young Charlotte's brother Michael who Conservatives, hunting, Ascot Was an omeer endet with the and fast cars are her passion, Duke. With unerring instinct There are six cars in the garage
discovered the local to choose from.
the Duke
compact.
night club and the couple were
Then there is the Yorkshira often to be seen hands fondly girl they call in the North "The entwined
Deb of the Year". ...freckled The Duke gave her a silver faced JULIA WILLIAMSON, Now they often who has a ragged urchin cut meet in London. lte lakes and a waist the Duke's hands her driving and to theatTES. con spun quite easily.
· His opinion? "She can talk Ilves at Bilborough Manor, intelligently about Cars and York. Her stepfather things." What is more, Charlotte nuval officer,
She
A
bam Hail but the Duke has never been heard to grumble.
And don't forget the girls at
Calterick Camp Post Office.
doesn't discuss him with other And now In Yorkshire the Bossip bubbles and bolls around when
there is....or was. Hovingham Hall, the home of the ski-ing instructress KONA Sir William Arthington Worsley MACLEOD They met in the and his daughter with the Austtion Tyrol. The Duke shoulder-length hair....KATH. There was the time he went Despite the poverty of her danced with her and finally she LEEN WORSLEY.
Kathleen and the Duke went own family she turned down posed alting on his lap. a dance given by Major
Robert Moubray of sevemi. Illustrious matches on The picture was spoiled by the to the Bedale Hunt's fancy dress
false moustache ball. the grounds that she wasn't extravagant in love. She mid with con- that he was wearing.
He was dressed in red velvet Since then Miss MacLeod, who as a Tudor, She was a Dresden siderable beat that she would walt until she was.
is in her middle thirties, has shepherdess. It is a 50-milo
met the
Duke drive from Callerick to Hoving- And sure enough she was 28 sometimes
"Romance," she onco said, before she became engaged. Dance With Them
There was also the revealing "Nonsense!" occasion
She was undoubtedly right, years ago when her a guest and sister Olga brake off her engage. but just as certainly Kent Loses Date was He had such
arrived with a large party, ment to the man who is now a deal of his reserve when be
They rush to serve bim good time that he King Frederick of Denmark. crosses the Channel.
when he appeara. forgot to dance with Evelyn, The Duchess of Kent exploded:
For there is no doubt about Aane, or Gillan.
"Why should she marry him if Thoy Mot-And
The Duke is a charmor, This was not the first time, she
And in his list of feminino More Dancing Mrs Michael Olded, wife of a wouldn't.
company one thing is striking. Leeds solicitor, invited him to a
for her deb daughter tude of the Duchess for royal girl blend. She is DIANA Tho ball
Duke of Kent most Caroline.
lovers. Consider the case of the HERBERT. Her father, Lord assuredly prefers blondes.
Women and him attractive. was for many years The Duke of Kent was not present Queen when she fell in Herbert,
he is good-looking. one of those who danced with Jove with the penniless Prince Comptroller to the Duchess. They say
tha Caroline,
Phillp. All the courtiers with The Duke and Diana ahared Photographs don't show This attitude of his is bound far more discretion than courage the same music and French and-unfortunately for a mem-
ber of royalty he is far from. heads until they tutors and played together. to be a source of annoyance to averted their
photogenic. To the public he is best remembered as a
vacant, open-mouthed prince. Tan truth is that he suffered badly from sinus trouble and only now is he getting over it,
love docan't
him?
I
it.
And don't overlook the solick- O course there is a childhood They are nearly all fair-haired.
THE HOLIDAY: The Duka Jitterbugs with Ellen d'Estain Vills at Klosters, Switzerland
Fresh air, says the Army, has cured him. The other well-worn phrase trembles on many a high-ranking lip. If I weren't lead-majesto i would certainly be uttered. You know the one, "We have made a man of him."
Where Hes the Duke's attric», tion?
His mother is mainly reapoa- sible. From his baby days he has been educated in a world of flawless manners.
He can Interrupt his talic of jazz and motor-cars to pay a pretty compliment, He can bow gracefully over a delicato hand and even....it the Occasion warrants it....a kise with an aesurance that would make his tellow countrymen look extremely askanon...
bo were not the Duke of Kent.
TO MORROW
THE DUKE AND HIS FATHER