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THE SQUIRE
of SANDRINGHAM
By F. G. Prince-White
King as the personification of a nation of sportsmen, graciously at home with the staunch-souled, Norfolk folk, simple-hearted savouring full.contentment with old friends, his gun and his dogs.
IT was at Sandringham, In its pages we see the late
where the peaceful sound of bells ring over Norfolk's woods and fields, and the sound of them is as the very voice of that corner of Eng-. land which has never lost its ancient quietude, that the King died. He dearly loved this corner of England.
It was at Sandringham that the late King was seen as "The First country gen- tleman in Europe," as he was called in a singularly well- written and illuminating nublication by J. Wontworth Day, nublished last month, "King George V as a Sports-
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TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1986.
PRAYERS OF AN EMPIRE
A BELOVED MONARCH
Not only throughout the Em- The spontaneous demonstration pire over whose destinies of affection by the three little girls he so long and ably ruled, outside the gates of Buckingham
Very beautifully the author conveys the spirit of the late King's home "on this north-east shoulder of Norfolk, which butta into the North Sen bluntly," where "we meet the first of the Arctic winds, the force and the
thunder of seas that roll without n 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- ly, jealous of itself, content to take time as time comes, deter- mined to build to lust."
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the country in which Sand- ringham stands imbued with
grace and dignity, he says:
There is something in its pence estate, ringed by its little homely George V delighted in wildfow-| and space, a spirit about a little villages, pheasants crowing on ling. Here is a vivid glimpse of lost villages and crawling, creeks,
windliners. on its heaths and a its lawns, its ploughlands gull him out where "the curloy riso in stateliness about its tall woods, dappled..."
about ILM little old Pigeons gossip loudly in the clouds and go shricking up the NOTES OF THE DAY churches-old on the Norman branches of trees, and "some- lonely coast":
which puts the world in proper where in the background there "Overhead, against the con- perspective. These old acres see
is the hum of lawn-mowers, the fused colours of a winter sunset, Time with the
of wise eyes A thousand years ago Sant
Sand Der- barking of spaniels, the stamp the wild geese flight in from the singham saw the Vikings bench and jingle of horses, a grumble sand-bars to the fresh marshes their ships. It saw the ravens fly of pleasant Norfolk voices.
of Holkham. And under the at the masthead, the fighting in
It is in this setting of un- sea-wall winding like a grey] the surges, the reddening of the marred tranquillity that the snake into the cattle marshes, waves, that
the fighting ghostly thone
battles on the blasted King was most at rest.. When goes the creek of Wolferton, its heath which Trevelyan put into he emerged from it, to go where waters steel-grey, crisp, before immortal English. It saw thorpe the partridges call, he was the the nor'easter. and hamlet go up in smoke and King of sportsmen. flame. And it was the forging of a new England....
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"Over the wall, with a sudden. duced also Coke of Holkham and whicker of wings, come the duck "Turnip" Townshend, the in six-eight-ten dark forma, fathers of English farming. It
bred,
ed, too, Tom de Grey, fifth Lord whistling in like bullets. They a flash. And, as Walsingham, one of the greatest are here in shots that ever lived. It saw the suddenly, they filing upwards arts
of pheasant shooting and like rockets at the sight of the partridge driving brought to perfec- still, solitary figure in the reeds. tion. Its marshes and broads have known wild-fowl in their thousands sinco the dawn of time..
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will the passing of His
the cold for news of His Majesty's Majesty King George the Fifth
progress at Sandringham, sang in His death be deeply mourned. overshadows all other news to-their sweet, child voices "God save
He paints a sharp picture of "this wild and lonely coast, this day, and here in Hongkong no the King," is to our mind one of
most touching Incidents of place which seems still to breed less than in other parts of the the
of the a bleak independence," and Empire very real sympathy will these anxious days
sovereign's Hiness. Possibly it points to the sturdiness of the be felt for the bereaved Queen typifies the feeling of the masses cottages of Dersingham, Snet- and the other members of the of the British people, that little tinham, Wells, Blakeney, Cley, Morston fine names, Royal Family in the heavy loss demonstration of love. It is the and
Sandringham is, in Kome "A double flash, twin staccato reports which, aro whipped which they have been called upon sort of thing which has sanctified breathing romance, to bear. Beloved by his people, the bond between the Ruler and speaks of "the great barns and measure, the quintessence of
the farm walls, the maltings and Norfolk, a mirror in little of the away by the wind, the quick, his people-my friends, my the
warehouses that stand sport and beauty that have made acrid smell of burnt powder- "and a pair are down in the flest whose deep affection for their people," as he liked to call them sturdily down to the creek's the character of Englishmen..'
in sudden upflung fountains of Richard Himber & His Orchestra. monarch was AQ strikingly Such incidents are rare because, edge...
spray. evidenced during the celebration in their nature, British people are of his Silver Jubilee, the late notably, undemonstrative. They The older hide their emotions. King will go down in history as
in hundreds and the fire sigh in each trip or bunch the longly they are, the more jealously they
the sea wind, There are
little gunner takes toll. George the Wise. The reign guard their more intimate feelings
green valleys, with a little river ·
"Saon the short flight is over. full of trout. There Bro great now ended was marked by many and their more sacred thoughts.
woods that stand like noble scarpa The peewits wail in the gloom. troublous times none more However, if His Majesty and His
against the sky. There are brecks A thin, cold moon comes up over golden with, gorse, murmurous with the set. On the upland an owl tragic and disastrous than the Majesty's family, in this bour of
bees in summer, rusty red in winter. hoots in the old woods. A heron stress, had need of a whisper from Great War-but King George the heart of the people of the
In one of the late King's game- cries hoarsely, the red-shank- the Fifth, by his calmness, his sympathy and loyalty and tenderį
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. urbanity, his level-headedness, regard felt for the Sovereign, they and his high integrity of pur-would take comfort from the prayer pier than at Sandringham, "that marshes with the Kals
That was on a November day, countless sheep and bullocke "Homeward by the path which pose, in dark days and peaceful sung in the chilly streat before pleasant but not too large house,
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-"So," he says truly, "ono can imagine no more fitting county for the private home of the King, of England. The coun- try has character. Ita: face has not been. spoiled. Its coastline is still wold. Its winds are keen. There is much in it of beauty and little of softness."
There are fifteen thousand, acres of farms and coverts, of gTORN
marshes and saltings, of wild, sandy "More fowl come, and from
heaths where the rabbits bob about
times alike, won a measure of the gates of Sandringham by thess set in the heart of its great in 1902. For many years King have worn across the marsh
three little girls.
النيه
the advice -of his accept Ministers. Thus he nover inter-
love and popularity that few British monarchs ever enjoyed. Not robust physically, the late King really never completely re- covered from his serious illness fered directly in party politics, in 1928, which left him extreme- but in times of energency hls
influence ly susceptible to chest trouble, j
was always quietly of which he had had recurring exercised. He followed prin- attacks 011 several occasionsciples which have enabled his! since. That illness of six years subjects almost to became re ago brought both King and publicans without knowing it. people to a full realisation of the Were it not for this policy, that affection that existed between ¦ remarkable experiment, the or- them. Throughout the follow-ganic union of free nations into ing trouble-fraught years of the British Commonwealth, worldwide depression — when would never have been possible the King more than once for and surely could not continue. xook the role of a mere figure Never more so than during the head and exercised his influence
late King's reign had the social
in political and economic erises instinct of his people so pro- that menaced the Empire's wel-foundly needed the stabilising fare the sovereign's personal influence of the Crown; never popularity became further en- had a monarch risen with more hanced. Of his contribution to excellent discretion and the exer- his day and time, history will cise of real wisdom to the great- give us a truer perspective than ness of his occasion. To-day, is possible now. But it can be King George is no more; he has said that as a ruler he marched been gathered to his forefathers steadily with public opinion and in the fullness of his years. But the advancement of democratic
ho bequeaths to his successor on principles. If he had a good in-
sight into his prerogative, he re- the Throne and to his people a garded it as his duty, as a con-rich heritage, the preservation stitutional monarch, loyally to of which will never be in doubt.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Go ahead, Junior, show the mail how you can get on all by your little dek."
goes the fowlor-George the Fifth of England, for one brief and precious hour the plain Squire of Sandringham."
If at Sandringham the King was the portsman-squire, at Balmoral he was the friendly laird. The folk there always deeply admired not only his grent prowess on the grouse moors but his vast knowledge of the birds.
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In 1911, in the course of his Coronation Durbar tour. of India, the lato King greatly im pressed everybody with his skil) 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 sallor's qualities that Britannia safled to victory.
And year after year÷k pre sonce 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 Jato King in the realm of sport and on a note of deep thankful ness that, from 1910 to 1986, the most turbulent quarter of a century of its history, the Em- pire was led by a very human, lovable man, an English gentle- man, and a sportsman of the old school whose faith and principles neither time nor wars could shake,