MUCH so-called informed guessing has gone on about the third baby's name. 'In fact, outside the close family circle nobody knows or will know until the birth is registered.
Only one point is worth remembering. "Both the Queen and the Duke favour wY unorthodox names, unorthodox for royalty, that is. "Charles” and “Anne” had not been used in the family for centuries.
As well known as the Queen's An occasional textiler maybe. zeal for performing her duties But the real reading interest for is her interest in and admiration the Queen is following the races. for Victoria, her great-great- She lays her hands on every grandmother": and cho must crop written about the Turi atten have pondered the reproof She scrudaives the racing cor- that Queen gavo to Albert when respondents' reporta fo the she wrote to him once:--
She studies form. That and that only Queen's constant reading-for- pleasure,
"You forget my dearest love, 1 am the Sovereign, and that business em stop for nothing. Therefore two or three dain it already a lorar time to be absent. This is my own wish in every way."
Which means, brought up to Now it falls to the Queen's date, tent there will be no Press Secretary to
Counsellors of State to take over the doctors, not always easy to the job, who are sometimes assemble, and get them to com- napointel when the Queen goes pose the first bulletin which all abroad. must algn. This is then taken nerosa the Palace forecourt and
Waling within enll in the Queen's Privalo Secretary, ready to telephone the Home Pul up on the railings.
Secretary,
Once it had been
that Minister's duty to witness the birth. Now Mr Butler's task is simpler, He wires the Lord Mayor, who Az First Citizen of the Queen's Capital posts the news outside the Mag- sion House,
By now the Private Secretary is cabling the Queen's Capitols in the Commonwealth to inform the Governors-General. And the Just news has been flashed to Fleet
Street.
Imagine the Palace scene
been born.
Varaflame
jet streamlined
Zeal
Such is the tuni of 17- nouncing a royal baby's birth.
But protocol will from then on be a little different, for this is the first royal baby born to a reigning monarch since 1857.
'My boxes'
Although business
may lapse for a short time, very soon what King George V used to call "my boxes" will make their appear- ance on the bedside table.
.
To these Cabinet secrets only the Queen and her Private Secretary have the key. State papers will form the main read- ing while the Queen rests.
The Queen's Government And just because of this wo- must be carried on, is a phrase censing flow of documents to be power-conscious politicians like looked at and to be signed, the to repeat. For the Queen it is Queen finds scant relaxation in an exact statement of fact. reading for its own sake.
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