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THE SQUIRE
of SANDRINGHAM
IT
By F. G. Prince-White
In its pages we see the lits King as the personification of a nation of sportsmen, graciously at home with the staunch-souled, Norfolk folk, savouring full contentment with old friends, his gun and his dogs.
Twas at Sandringham, where the peaceful sound of belle ring over Norfolk's woods and fields, and the simple-hearted sound of them is as the very voice of that corner of Eng- and which has never lost its ancient quietude,, that the ing died. He dearly loved Open and Closed carsnis corner of England. with liveried chauffeurs
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It was at Sandringham that the late King was seen as "The First country gen- tleman in Europe," as he wag called in a singularly well- jwritten and illuminating publication by J. Wontworth Day, nublished last month, "King George V as a Sports-
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TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1936.
A BELOVED MONARCH Not only throughout the Em
NOTES OF THE DAY PRAYERS OF AN EMPIRE
The spontaneous demonstration whose over
destinies of affection by the three little girls: the so long and ab'y ruled outside the gates of Buckingham but the wide world over, Palace who, while they waited in
the passing of
His the cold for news of His Majesty's Majesty King George the Fifth progress at Sandringham, sang in e deeply mourned. His death their sweet, ehlid voices "God save
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Very beautifully the author conveys the spirit of the late King's home "on this north-cast shoulder of Norfolk, which butts into the North Sea bluntly," where "we meet the first of the Arctic winds, the force and the.
thunder of seas that roll without a break between here and Ice. land." He likes to. "think that it is because Norfolk is still Nor- folk it is still Old England, stout- is jealous of itself, content to mined to build to last."
take time as time comes, deter
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the country in which Sand-
ringham stands imbued with
grace and dignity, he says:
There is something in ita peace estate, ringed by its little homely George V delighted in wildfow- and space, a spirit about its little villages, pheasants crowing on ling. Here is a vivid glimpse of last vileges and crawling crocks, its lawns, its ploughlands gull- him out where "the curloy rise in a windiness on its heaths and a dappled.. stateliness about its tall woods,
about
Pigeons gossip loudly in the clouds and go shrieking up the Little
nid Homething
Its
as branches of trees, and "some- lonely const":" churches-ald as the Normans which puts the world in proper 'where in the background there "Overhead, against the con- acres see is the ham of lawn-mowers, the fused colours of a winter sunset, perspective. These old Time with the wise eyes of age. barking of spaniels, the stamp the wild geese flight in from the A thousand years ago Sand Der singham saw the Vikings beach and jingle of horses, a grumble sand-bars to the fresh marshes their ships.
of Holkham... . It saw the ravena fly of pleasant Norfolk voices..
And under the at the masthead, the fighting in it is in this setting of un- sea-wall winding, like a grey tranquillity that the snake into the cattle marshes,
the surges, the reddening of the marred
waves, that ghostly fighting in the King was most at rest. When goes the creek of Wolferton, its fog thuse battles on the blasted heath which Trevelyan put into he emerged from it, to go where waters steel-grey, crisp, before immorial English. It saw thorpe the partridges call, he was the the nor'easter.
and hamlet e up in amoke and King of sportsmen. flame. And it was the forging of
a new England..
The county that bred Nelson pre- "Over the wall, with a sudden duced also Coke of Holkham and whicker of wings, come the duck "Turnip" Townshend, the twinix-oight-ten dark forms, fathers of English farming. It bred, too, Tom de Grey, fifth
Walsingham, one of the god whistling in like bullets. They
are here in a flash. And,, as, shots that ever lived. It saw the suddenly, they fling upwards partridge driving brought to perfec- still, solitary figure in the reeds. party pheasant shooting and like rockets at the sight of the tion. Its marshes and broads have
since the dawn of time. known wild-fowl in their thousands
Sandringham is, "in
some
1
most touching Incidents of He paints a sharp picture of Jay, and here in Hongkong nothe
days
this wild and lonely coast, this of the anxious these ess than in other parts of the
overeign's illness. Possibly place which seems still to breed blenk independence," and Empire very real sympathy will
typifies the feeling of the masses be felt for the bereaved Queen of the British people, that little points to the sturdiness of the and the other members of the demonstration of love. It is the cottages of Dersingham, Snet- Morston fine names, Royal Family in the heavy loss ort of thing which has sanctified tisham, Wells, Blakeney, Cley,
the bond, between the tufer and and
"A double flash, twin staccato breathing romance. And he
reports which are whipped ........ Ray Noble Orchestra.which they have been called upon his people~"my 'friends. my speaks of "the great barns and measure, the quintessence of
to bear. Beloved by his people, people," as he liked to call them the farm walls, the maltings and Norfolk, a mirror in little of the away by the wind, the quick,
warehouses that stand sport and beauty that have made acrid smell of burnt powder whose deep affection for their Such incidents are rare because,the
" and a pair are down in the fleet monarch
strikingly in their nature, British people are sturdily down to the creek's the character of Englishmen..
in sudden upflung fountains of notably undemonstrative. They edge.....
There are Gifteen thousand acres
spray. Richard Himber & His Orchestra. evidenced during the celebration hide their emotions. The older
of farms and coverts, of grasa marshes and saltings, of wild, sandy "More fowl come, and from of his Silver Jubilee.. the late they are, the more jealously they
heaths where the rabbits bob about each trip or bunch the lonely in hundrind
and the firs sigh in King will-go-down-in-history-as guard their more intimate feelings George the Wise. The reign and their more sacred thoughts.
river now ended was marked by many However, if His Majesty and His Majesty's family, in this hour of troublous times none more stress, had need of a whisper from Eragic and disastrous than the the heart of the people of the Great War-but King George sympathy and loyalty and tender the Fifth, by his calmness, his regard felt for the Sovereign, they arbanity, his level-headedness, would take comfort from the prayer street before) ung in the chilly and his high integrity of pur the gates of Sandringham by these pose, in dark days and peaceful three little girls. Limes alike. won'a measure bi love and popularity that few!
accept
advice of the. British monarchs ever enjoyed. Ministers. Thus he never inter- Not robust physically, the latetered directly in party politics, King really never completely rebut in times of emergency his covered from his serious illness in 1928, which left him extreme-
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ly susceptible to chest trouble,xercised. He followed" prin- of which he had had recurring iples which have enabled hist tuks on several occasions subjects almost to become re- since. That illness of six years publicans without knowing it. ago brought both King and Were it not for this policy, that people to a full realisation of the remarkable experiment, the or affection that existed between ganic union of free nations into hem. Throughout the follow-the British Commonwealth, ing trouble-fraught years of would never have been possible worldwide depression — when and surely could not continue. the King more than once for Never more so than during the 300k the role of a mere figure late King's reign had the social head and exercised his influence instinct of his people so pro- in political and economic crises foundly needed the stabilising chat-menaced the Empire's wel-
influence of the Crown; never fare the sovereign's personal and a monarch risen with more popularity became further en excellent discretion and the exer- hanced. Of his contribution to cise of real wisdom to the great his day and time, history willness of his occasion. To-day, give us a truer perspective than King George is no more; he has is possible now. But it can be
been gathered to his forefathers said that as a ruler he marched steadily with public opinion and in the fullness of his years. But the advancement of democratiche bequeaths to his successer on principles. If he had a good in the Throne and to his people a sight into his prerogative, he re- rich heritage, the preservation gorded it as his duty, as a con- of which will never be in doubt. stitutional monarch, loyally, to
' ས ས ས ས ས ས ས ས ཏཾ ཙ ཏཾཏྟཾ ། ''
"So," he says truly, "one can imagine no more fitting county for the private home-of-the- King of England. The coun- try has character. Its faca has not been spoiled. Its coustline is, still wold. Its winds are keen. There is much in it of beauty and little of softness."
the sea
There are Hittle gunner-takes toll.-
little. green valleys, with Д
"Soon the short flight is over. Full
of trout. There are great woods that stand like noble scarps The peewits wall in the gloom. against the sky. There are brecka A thin, cold moon comes up over golden with gorse, murmurous with the sea. On the upland an owl bees in summer, rusty red in winter. hoots in the old woods. A heron
In one of the late King's game- cries hoarsely, the red-shank books It is recorded that, as pipe. Night and the sea-wind Nowhere was the King hap- Prince of Wales, he shot the possess the marsh.
"Homeward by the path which pler than at Sandringham, "that marshes with the Kaiser. pleasant but not too large house, That was on a November day countless sheep and bullocks set in the heart of its great in 1902. For many years. King have worn across the marsh
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Go ahead, Junior, slow the man how you can get on all by
your little self."
goes. the fowler-George the Fifth of England, for one brief and precious hour the plain Squire of Sandringhain."
If at Sandringham the King was the sportsman-squire, at Balmoral he was the friendly laird. The folk there always deeply admired, not only his great prowess on the grouse moors but his vast knowledge of the birds..
In 1911, in the course of his Coronation Durbar tour of India, the late King greatly im pressed everybody with his skill and coolness in big-game shoot- ing.
Of his genius as yachtsman all · men know. He revived yacht- ing when, after the war, it seemed to be dead. Many a time it was due to his sailor's qualities that Britannia sailed to victory.
And year after year his pre- sence at those two great national" events, Epsom and Ascot, gave joy to his subjects who like nothing better than a royal win. Well may this study of the late King in the realm of sport end on a note of docp thankful- ness that, from 1910 to 1936, the most turbulent quarter of a century of its history, the Em- pire was led by a very human, a lovable man, an English gentle- man, and a sportsman of the old wchool whose faith and priciples neither timo or wars could #hake.