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To-day, for the first time in more than 400 yours, a bachelor King occupies the Throng of England. You must go back. to the boy King Edward VI (1547-1553) for a consortless King prior to Edward VII. The only other bacholor Kings were William Rufus and the Prince in the Tower, Edward V. You must go back to Elizabeth for a previous unmarried ruling monarch.
While His Majesty King Edward VIII remains unmarried and thus without an heir, there are oight people in the direct line to the throno ho ascended on the death this wook of his beloved Fathor. They are, in the order given, thò Duke of York, aged 39, Princess Elizabeth, 9. Princess Margaret Rose, 5, the Duke of Gloucester, 35, the Duke of Kent, 32, Prince Edward (the Duke of Kent's baby) 3 months, Princess. Royal, 38 and Lord Lascellex, 12.
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Ho reached man's estate at the
his
LTE has 'walked with Edward Albert Christian George attractions, at the Taiping Theatre; dispatches home, and he was called
Kings and kept the Andrew Patrick David was born at played in a polo match; visited Kow- In a private soldier's letter "
White Lodge, Richmond, on June loon; and met the whole community soldier and a man," with." a bigger common touch."
23rd, 1894, and is therefore now in ball held in the pavillon heart than a lot who are hanging
which had been erected in honour back in Great Britain." In these words, perhaps 41 years of age. His first three of his visit.
names were respectively those of more than in any other, may his grandfather, the late Prince In his farewell message, the Royal most drondful moment that
Consort, and Queen Alexandra's visitor said "I enjoyed my first country had ever known; but a the qualities of King Ed-father. He was given the last visit more than I can say. I shall moment that quickly developed
four names in honour of the always retain the happiest memories character and ward VIII, the new occupant Patron Saints of England, Scot- of Hongkong and take the deepest and people fast in bonds of loyalty grappled princes interest in the welfare and pros- and affection. The people were of the Throne, be summed land, Ireland and Wales.
perity of the Colony.”
rendy with their love. To readi ness was added the feeling of security, beenuse, out of that court
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For although His Majesty. KING Edward comes to the Throne
as the most widely-travelled the new King's childhood prac- ly virtue of modesty and that monarch the Empire has ever had. tically nothing is known. And Worldly virtue of keenness grows Ite has visited practically all parts that is as it should be. At the age the character that makes good of the Empire, to say nothing of of 13 he went, like any other gentle. Kings. France, Germany, Russla, Japan, man's son, to Osborne, and then, the United States and many coun- when he' tries in South America, and has to Dartmouth where he caught AS a pubile speaker, the new King
not quite 16, beef acclaimed by more people than the measles! He WAB rated has shown that he is able to
to the high office to which he has now been called by the lamented death of his father, and has always been rounded by the glamour of royalty, he has won his fame
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he has played in cementing the bonds which link together. the component parts of the great British Commonwealth of Nu- tions is beyond estimation-well has he been called the Empire's greatest ambassador.
sults obtained.
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In the O.T.C. ho "performed the duties of an ordinary private."
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he enjoys an amazing popularity; weeks later was appointed to the reading prepared words. Ile has in the Old Country ho is always Hindustan. In the spring of 1912 the necomplishment of speaking hailed by loyal and devated crowds lie went to Parls, and there, in the without a manuscript, and in every wherever he goes, and In recent household of the Marquis de Bro- quarter of the Empire to-day the years he has shown his personal teuil, he was not Prince of Wales echoes of his speeches still linger Interest in and concern for the wel- at all, but the Earl Chester, a
in the memory of the tens of thou charms of a striking personality, fare of the poorer classes by fre- young English nobleman, studying ads who have listened to his voice. quent visits to the slums of the not only French, but France, her And his words have shown that he The natural impulses and human East End of London, and to unem- beauties, her antiquities, her in an real, vivid, and intensely human qualities of the man himself ployment centres, where he has stitutions, and her Navy. And the personality. | have transcénded the inexorable; been welcomed with intenso en- French people, with perfect tact, In 1927, there was published a
restrictions of his station in lifethusiasm.
understood the case, as they had striking volume of the collected understood the visits of his grand speeches of His Majesty as Prince and are responsible for his uni- So it can be said that not only father to Paris. When the first of Wales--utterances delivered on versal popularity.
does His Majesty know all his little excitement was over, they many occasions, in widely separated people, but, what is more im "respectfully Ignored" the Heir to scenes, over a period of fourteen portant still, his people know him. the Throne of England. He is thus a very real asset to the
years. This was the first time that NOTES OF THE DAY State and with him the Monarchy Then came Oxford-net Christ such a thing had occurred in Bri- will be safe, and even more glori Church, but Magdalen; not the tish history; but it was also the occupant of the Throne will
fed. The ndded responsibilities secluded pomp that had bean sr-
first time that any Heir to the FILM CENSORS IN BRITAIN gloriously carry on the tradi-
which he now assumes may sup ranged for King Edward, but the Throne had played so conspicuous press Nome of the natural en- life of an ordinary undergraduate and, untiring a part in Imperial There are many, strange princi-thusiasm which he has shown as with a tutor and an equerry some-
Affairs. His Royal Father and tions established by a long line ples and methods in British admin- Prince of Wales, but none of his where in the background. Ile at Grandfather before him set a great Edward VIII assumes the high concerns. of worthy predecessors. Kingistration of both private and public people want him to lose his delight tended the ordinary lectures, wore example; but the circumstances of
spontaniety and-
their day human the ordinary gown, joined in the
did To the logically minded ful
not give the or ordinary sports, entertained his occasion
the деоре for office to which he has been among the foreign students of finalities.
friends in the ordinary way. the experience which has, fal | British affairs the various anomalies
len to his own lot. called at a moment when his they come across are a baffling pro- TN the words of a popularity is at its peak. With-blem, but a still more surprising American writer, the new King is ingdalen and Oxford in general in these records, but in his interest All aspects of life are covered out question, as the Prince of thing is the excellence of the re- to-day the most widely loved in understood his parents' wishes and in the larger industrial and social
dividual One of the oddest
In the world. Wiles he was the idol of theenses is that of the ceremony of about
has been photographer, written his own; and it is said that one problems, the Royal speaker never college resented-with_buckets of forgot to whom the country owed whole. world-an
and
discussed intensely appaleting a
more cold water-the impertinence of its salvation. At the Mansion. Film Censor. The than any ather person human personality.
alive, crowd that gathered about her gates House,, December, 1919. he said, a man of Censor is the head of a Board He is vivid and picturesque to see the Prince on his way to a 1 can never speak too strongly or unaffected and engaging charm, which has no official status. He is yet he remains gure of lecture. That was perhaps a too too often of the great debt that. romance. He is the outstanding strenuous fashion of declaring the the Empire owes to its sailors and serious
appointed by the Incorporated Asso- student of world ciation of Kinematograph Manu-
personality of the Twentieth Con- value of an idea in which the soldiers who fought and won the affairs, and, above all, a liberal facturers, who meet perhaps once
Lury.
parents and the Heir and the people Great War. I want all ex-Service spirit who has ever kept abreast.sen and who exist mainly for by the accident of birth, he has suc. than ever, Monarchy rests on the and particularly in the Old Coun "His high estate thrust upon him concurred the idea that now, more men in every part of the Empire, The part which purpose. The Film Censor ceeded in winning the hearts of his mutual love of ruler and ruled.
try, to remember me as an old com- the 750 local licensing authorities tion of men, women and children of
rade in arms, one who wants them has no legal standing. Any one of people, and in gripping the imaginn.
always to look on him as a comrade can go contrary to his decisions other lands and other race. He Arded as Prince of Wales,
ND unquestionably the plan has in spirit," Actually his decisions are tacitly tish Empire.
has become a tradition of the Bri-
wherever he has been, he has been sport it is almost unnecessary to Of His Majesty's keen interest in recognised and respected by both
liked. He was liked in the naval speak. From his youth up he has "How has he public and private authorities, al- though any of them could, logically alone cannot explain it. He has ford. His
managed to colleges and in the Navy; he was ever believed in keeping it and has make good? Accident of birth liked In Paris; he was liked at Ox- always managed to get in. plenty and legally, ignore or reverse them. had great advantages, but also he precisely for
fellows liked
him of outdoor recreation between the that unassuming carrying out of his numerous of- Fortunately, the Film Censors have has faced tremendous dimeulties, modesty which is at the bottom of ficial duties. In hunting, steeple- The man himself is clearly revealed in
always been men of broad views As the Heir to a Throne he has been the reputed shyneas. He ran for chasing, polo, tennis, and golf he as to what is required by the dented much that other boys, make shelter to ne clique, nor held him has shown himself a capable sports. numerous public utterances to cinema public. Itecently the Cen-as a matter of course to humaniso where on what he was, and not on boxing is well-known.
Ing their way in the world, receive self aloof. He took his stand every man, whilst his keen following of which he has given voice. These sor, Mr. Short, died, and to the sur- and develop them,
Yet he is a what he was born. \ speeches, delivered on diverse prise of many people, and a very prince of good fellows. For the
pleasant surprise it was, it was an-man himself, and for him
MONGST the many tours which of life, have a very lively human be Lord Tyrrell of Avon, who, be- as in the luxurious and aristocratic possible.
in the dark alleys of Whitechapel as possible, and Ace as much as
mentioned his visit to Canada interest, providing evidence of fore he retired from the Diplomatic drawing rooms of Mayfair.. He is
und the United States in 1910, his At Oxford he played football first visit to these countries, where the gradual growth of a per- Service, was British Ambassador above party privilege and politics. hard for his college's second he won
in Paris from 1928 to 1934. It Class feeling fades before nostre cloven, and ran up the tow-path Then in 1920 he went to Austra sonality from youth to ripe man-
universal popularity. sence. The remarkable demonstra- would be difficult to think of any-tion of love and adulation which cheering the Magdalen boat. The lia, being most enthusiastically hood. They reveal character do-
ene better suited to the post than he inspires in the high and the low winningness of it was Irresistible, greeted everywhere, following veloping, under the influence of a Lord Tyrrell. He has been inter-wherever he goes would appear But much more than an unassum- which, two years later, he came to high. destiny, from the shyested in fims from the start; he more to measure the greatness of ing temper ta required to explain the Far East. In 1925, he went is a man of wide culture and has a the man than to testify to the its significance. We got the hint on a tour to South Africa #d simplicity of the speech at his
from those who have had charge of South America, and in 1927 again sympathetic understanding
significance of his rank. of investiture as Prince of Wales, modern entertainment needs, and "Among his friends he is best Campbell of the Ilindustan ex-
His Majesty's education. Captain visited Canada.
to the finely moving words rank will be invaluable in his new He never seems to get the blues. is "a live thing." He is keen. He merchant marine, His Majesty in his talents as a diplomat of high liked for his unfailing good humour, pressed it in a phrase. The Prince Always deeply interested in the spoken at the unveiling, of the post.
He has quick wit, loves to chaff his played football and ran up the 1923 assumed the title of Mastor, friends, but can take a joke when towing-path not because It of the Merchant Navy and Fishing it le against him. He is always was his duty, but because Flects. At the time of his The Great War was a fearful tion for the officers and men of courteous, and never affected. He he WAS keen. Al accounts father's' Illness in the same year, ordeal, but it may be believed the Merchant
responds quickly to first impres convey Navy, his
the Bame impression he was on a tour of East Africa, slons, and if he likes a main, he is an Impression of alertnees and from which he hurriedly rushed solicitude for, the unemployed not ashamed to show it."
eagerness, As Prince, ho was home, being appointed one of the and distressed all these have
eager to learn, to do, to know. He Counsellors of State in the made him loving and admiring
works hard because he likes it. emergency. Ho resumed his he said, "In-those four years I
friends in all classes of the com-HONGKONG has the happiest He is quick to observe, to pick up, African tour in 1930. found my manhood." They munity. Now that he is on the arch who, as
memories of the new mon- to understand. He enjoys activity.
Prince of Wales,
In September, 1930, His Majesty gave him an assured confidence Throne, the future will mean palda visit to
the Colony No one, then, was surprised when was promoted from Captain to to face the exacting demands for
1922 ол his tour of it became known soon after the war. Vice-Admiral, from Colonel to the new King hard and in
India, China and Japan. He ar- broke out that the Frince of Wales. Lieutenant-General, and from which his position involved. The often tedious work. But in set-rived here aboard H.M.S. Renown as he then was, was enger to 800 Group Captain, R.A.F, to years which have intervened ting his hand to the plough, His on April 6th, and spent two full active service. On August 8, 1914, Marshal, whilst In June, 1932, he have only served to increase his Majesty may be confident in the days in our midet, winning immense he was gazetted a second lieutenant
popularity, wherever he went, in the Grenadier Guards, and he was appointed Hon. Air Com sense of responsibility and to in his modesty and his keenness, people; and the people, secure
joined his regiment a few days later, modore-In-Chief of the Squad- During his stay in the Colony, he But some months were to pass be rons comprising the Auxillary develop those qualities of mind will know that the traditions of inspected ex-Servicemen, officers fore he was allowed to have his do- Air Force. In 1931, he visited with Prince of the Mercantile Marine, Boy sire. Not till November was le South America and heart which have made him a great and noble family will be Scouts and Girl Guides, and also promoted to the rank of lieutenant George, whilst in September, 1932, one of the world's biggest maintained to the full. Long met a big gathering of children on and permitted to leave for the seat he
opened an Anglo-Danish the Cricket Club ground. He also of war, gazetted to Sir John Trade Exhibition in Copenhagen, His attachment may he five to reign overlaid the foundation stone of the St. French's staff. After that, with his and afterwards visited Sweden, to ex-Servicemen, his admira united and prosperous Empire! Stephen's Girls' College, attended a characteristic keenness, he saw all being everywhere recolved with
Chinese banquet, with theatrical that there was to be seen; he bore the utmost enthusiasm.
03 Д In France he liked to go about
occasions, touching mil aspectsnounced that his successor woula symbol of State, he is as welcome as much as possible, and as quietly the new King has made may be
naval war memorial at Chatham.
that His Majesty, as Prince of Wales, did not exaggerate when
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