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THE ROYAL MEMOIRS

By

H.R.H.

THE

In my father's diary for the year 1894 there occura

the following entry: "White Lodge, June 23. At 10.00 a

sweet little boy was born and weighed bib. ... .Mr. Asquith (Home Secretary) enme to see him.”

White Lodge, in Richmond Park, Surrey, was the home of my maternal grandparents, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, and some- how I imagine that this was the lust time my father even applied to me that precise adjective.

The house WRA not without historical associations ture Caroline, George IV.8 had lived there; and the dining table, had it been able to talk, toki of could have

the evening that Lord Nelson, dipping his finger in the port, had traced out the tactles of a famous sea battle,

DUKE OF

Boyhood Days

WINDSOR

Britain was the most powerful In any case, the effect upon nation on earth., Her sea power me was what one would expect! Industrial power, and financial the bawling and sobbing which power were supreme.

treatment this painful

evoked always ended in my being re- moved lest I bring further embar- ensamient to the onlookers of this pathetic scene.

Her Empire envered a quarter of the earth's surface.

Queen Vivtoria looked out upon n world not riven and shattered,} bat prosperous and teening.

of The Courts

Europe were occupied in no mean measure by her humerous children and grand. children.

Eventually my mother realised what was wrong and the nurse left.

Victoria

seven

The formidable Kaiser Wilhelm Queen Victoria reigned on for after my yearn II. of Germany was her grand-pearly

10 welcome birth, long enough on "William."

into this world my brother Al- bert, now King George VI, who 18 months after me. was born my sister Mary, the present Prin- cess Royal,

brother my and Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

Another grandson by marriage,

was Czar Consort, "Nicky,"

of all the Hossias,

My birth occurred during Ascot race week, and on the night I was born my grandfather, then Prince of Wales and later Edward Vil, was host at a large ball at Virginia Water short distance awny.

Stopping the orchestra my

grandfather announced:

"It is with pleasure that I am able to inform you of the birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of York. I propose a tooat to the young Prince.”

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The dance, I like to think went

Christening

A month later Queen Victoria drove over from Windsor Castle to attend the christening of her first great-grandson writing in her diary:

"The dear, fing baby, wear ing the Honiton lace robe. worn by all our children and English grandchildren.

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was brought in and handed to me. I then once him to the Archbishop, and received tin back... The child was very good. There was an absence of music which ! thought a pity. Had tea with May, and afterwards whe were photographed. I hoiding the baby an my lap, Bertie and Georgie standing behind me, thus making the four generations."

The Unofficial Members did at least as much as could be expected from them yes- terday, when they gave some able analyses and construc- tive criticism of the Colony's expenditure for 1949-50, The knowledge und assiduity shown by these speeches were not minimised by grow- ing public appreciation that they can have not the slight est effect on government's David. decisions.

I was christened Edward Albert

Christian George Andrew Patrick

Edward is a traditional English

The speakers were, under-name and before me had bech standably, uniformly

bome by six English kings.

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rerned with the mounting cost of bureaucracy, buz it is doubtful whether any sug- gestion

great

Albert was in deference to my grandmother Victorio's express desire that all her descendants bear the name of her beloved husband. to reduce this can

Christian was named

for

1

I

Especially for Britans of the upper and middle classes this was Britain's golden hour.

my

THE GREAT QUEEN VICTORIA,, who came to christening, wrote of that events "The deur, fine buby....MOE brought in and handed to me.... Afterwards we avere photographed, I halding the baby an my inp. Bertie and Georgie

standing behind me, thus making the four generations,”

Was Income tax

measured in I can recall being taken by my

Socialism was scarcely more than the Great Queen-Empress at the three places where she spent her D theory.

'ong life: To The first telephone had been

Windsor, whose installed in a royal residence only historic Castle dates from Nor- four years previously, and eight man ilmes and whence my family years would pass before my and my dukertom take their name, father acquired his first motor to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeen- vehich shire, to Osborne, that utterly electric small

match that of a correspon-King Christian IX. of Denmark, the pence pound sterling: parents for occasional visits to

parents "Mama"

"Papo,"

a car,

on

Wight.

When Queen Victoria died aged 81 at Osborne, my brother, Bertie, my sister, Mary, and I were all at our country home, York Col- In Norfolk, tage, Sandringham getting over the measles.

My father, having caught them from us, broke out with the disease while at Osborne, where he had been summoned to her deathbed and was himself very

Good

You would hardly credit it, but Judging by the Reform Club meet- ing and the budget debate yester- day, it appears that some people actually object to spending ali that money on civil servants.

According to a possibly garbled report, the aim of the Colonial Office is "to endure Malayan pro- sperity."

Maybe they could endure it if some of us here had a little too?

"Radium Looted from Colony, Bhangliai Sald Returned To SCAP by Jap Navy Man." Sonio old China hands are going to raise hell about that.

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Anything for a catchy story. A contemporary yesterday carried story of a "woman who drank atoniic energy."

He was therefore unable to at- tend her funeral at Windsor and as my mother remained to nurse im into convalescence, I fell to my grandmother, the new Queen Alexandra, to arrange for ៤

Turned out she had been given three children 10 witness the

a dose of radio-loding for thyroid ceremony.

deficiency, and had not exploded at mind's all,

I can still see in my eye the caisson bearing my great- grandmother's coffin being slowly dragged up the hill by sallors to St George's Chapel.

The day was cold and gloomy,

the ceremony mournful and de- pressing.

In the minds of those present

Neet

there

been n must have sense of the passing of a great era.

Whatever the eventual political effects, it was common knowledge that under the new King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra the ilfe of the British Court would change.

Wo should, perhaps, be grateful that no one here has quite the powers which Sun Fo claims to spend all those secret allowances.

Mountain Stalin to meet Mahom- med Truman?

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"USSB responsibility for Man. churian stripping."

Don't tell me the old burlycue

has penetrated to the grim re

gions.

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A Viennese barber has broken world record by shaving a man in 14 seconds. And in the face of stubble resistance.

Now Edward Victoria stood not only for a reign but a way of life, Dil- gence and respeciability had been the moral pillars of her And while she had

amalier's Agure." love for her eldest son and heir, their relations had long been un-

cord

Court,

She disapproved of his horse racing and

playing and, Judging him Indiscreet, had never taken him into her confidence in the conduct of State buslaess.

Yet at the same time her own self-imposed seclusion

had im-

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"Co alt out

for a shapely Get taken in at any cost.

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A new bus, we are told, can Most people, however, prefer to walt for the next.

be overhauled in a day.

Preserves manufacturers have produced A surplus. Haven't sold all they can.

posed upon my grandfather as Prince of Wales inore responated the pretty girl, tapping the *Is this the spoedomoter?" mak- bilty then would normally have glass, "Yes, dear," he replied. been the case. 4

"And that's the clutch7"-giving As a consequence, during the it a little push with her foot 1880s his London residence, Marl-That's the clutch, darling," he

xald, swerving quickly avold

to

"But what on earth's this?" she

borough House, and his country estate of Sandringham, had be- come the meeting place of the world's leading diplomats, poulti- cians, Industriallats, and bankers,quired, giving the accelerator & artists and their patrons-the new,

"This, dear," he said in a soft, sumptuously rich society of Eu-celestial voice. "Is Heaven." And rope and America,

sudden nudge.

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While permitting no intringepicking up a harp he flew away. ment upon royal etiquette, my grandfather had nevertheless

evolved a mode of entertaining

kla distinguisherl friends which , provided a good time for every- body, without ever seriously tres- passing upon the dignity of his. high position.

Quite unconsciously, he, no lese than his distinguished mother, had become the embodiment of a fashion of thought.

The arrival of the new King was like a breath of fresh air in a long-shut room.

However, to my family, I was and always have been "David" And I was brought up. In the simple English and to call my steered by a horizontal handlebar. un-English house in imitation of My grandfather's cosmopolitan It was hard to imagine that an Italian villa on the Inle of circle of friends now had the

"entre" to the Court anything could shake the struc-

where in Surrounded always by a rota- Victoria's ime only the Royal ture of the Englishman's world.

tion of members of her large Family, Cabinet Ministers, and Early Life

family, she had lived in a state courtiers of impeccable conner- of perpetual widowhood since tions and dry, aesthetic interests the death of her husband in 1881, had been admitted.

before the people yet at all times shunning public life until her Jubilee demanded her appearance

punctilious In her attention to

dent in today's issue who be-

onc my 12 royal sponsors.

of lieves whole departments The last four names are those of might well be abolished en- the patron saints of England. tirely. However drastic this Scotland, Ireland and Wales. may appear on the surface, the idea certainly opens up an interesting line of thought.

It was a wonderful time to be Many citizens

will agree born. Victoria, at 75, was in the with the remarks by Sir 57th year of her great reign, and Man-kam Lo about the con- discrepancy bc- tween locally-recruited staff and the favoured "expatri- ates" from Home. "The idea tie speculators might show that a person's remuneration material confidence in our should depend

the commercial future-at least upon coluur of his skin," he said, on a short term basis. "which could never have This speaker strongly ad- been justified-is obviouslyvocated the decontrolling of outmoded and cannot be rice and its return to free

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had been on the throne as lone as all but the oldest Britons could remember.

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The recollectious of my early

life are very dim.

the Royal Navy, did not give up My father, a career officer In his service at son until 1898 four years after I born.

was

1 passed Immediately under the affairs at State.

Although in her journal the care of nurses, and reflecting Queen Victoria's instinctive great Queen mentions me with the 75 years that nitachment for all things Teu-affection,

nurses was separated us naturally prevented her paying me any particular

of these

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I learned English and German attention. world." The recognition agree with this recommenda-

simultaneously,

In her white tulle cap and black was gaining ground "that a tion. At the moment the

A nurse appears to have been natin dresses she was almost a person should be paid accord-price is reasonable and sup- to blame for an unfavourable divinity of whom not only the ing to his ability and respon-plies are available to the first impression that I made upon whole British people but her own

family stood in awe. sibilities."

whole population. Even my parents,

It was their custom to have me She wore shiny black shoes This member was against with a large influx of re-

elastic sides. But what most about har governinent building low-fugees from across the bar- brought downstairs at tea time.

I was, after all the first-born fascinated me priced houses for the gender, this situation could prob. and my father as fathers do was her habit of taking break- forward to this fast in Ilttle revolving huts, eral public, putting up obably be maintained in time rather looked

Interlude at the end of a busy mountert jections which do not hold of emergency. It must be

day as an Occasion of mutual they could be faced away from

the wind, water, in view of the dim-admitted too that the world pleasure and edification.

which stood In the culties successfully sur rice position is not too rosy, But it seldom turned out that grounds of Windsor, Balmoral, mounted in Britain and parts and Burma's exports in the way,

Before taking of Europe, however, different near future. are problema- their circumstances and tical. No. While we may "Nanny" would pinch and twist little carrloge drawn by a white locale. He thought the gov dislike government control, my arm-why, no knew, un-pany led by a Highland attendant.

Her family would ernment had failed to en- the availability of this basic less it was to demonstrate, accord-

gather courage private enterprise in foodstuff cannot be left thing to some perverse reasoning around, and later she would call that her power over me was for her secretaries and begin the building, but ignored the the hands of dealers who greater than theirs.

business of the day. blatant abuse of freedom in would boost the price to im- regard to enormous rents possible limits in times of and key money..

shortage or danger.

Dr. S. N. Chaù seemed th Sir M..K. Lo, together with be all in favour of more Mr. Cassidy and Mr. Landale,

Arawing Toom

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age the building of more re-loan, instead of from current KNOW aldential quarters for the revenue. This is undoubted- general publie in the New 'y sound economic theory, Territories. He also, how and there can be no argu ever, had no solution to offer ment that our loan liabilites for the extreme congestion are indeed "small in relation in the urban areas.

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mo

this

and Osborne. into the Weather permitting, she would droodful ride over to these shalters in a

Mild card games and a lively interest in horse racing replaced

theatricals; the waltz replaced the

evening games of Patience,

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