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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1940.

THE ROYAL MEMOIRS

By H.R.H.

The

when

ho

THE DUKE OF

WINDSOR

Osborne And Dartmouth

Growing Up.

in that I slept not jelated with the

and

110W to

"Yeow upsets Lau."

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Habli-Forming, Drugs. Excessive Corisumption No- viewed by WHO,"

By WHOM, please.

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In

My father's Interest in Osborne I am afraid that between 118, And then I knew that Edward |satellite orbits which they had: did not stop with my studios.with the best of intentions, we the Seventh, Victoria's oldest son, occupied until then. Daring hulldoyn he would ply we imposed quite a strain upon the had died, aged 69 after a reign Buckingham Palace, Windsor with questions about how wa college schoolmasters.

or nine years.

Balmoral passed

North Koreans, having enviat lived, what we ate, how much time

It was my grandfathers fate them, and as soon as my grand-for some time the fine now wes- we hind to ourselves, and shake his head and exclaim thai I liked Dartmouth better than that la Ughter side should have mother's grief subsided prepara-pons in the hands of their Chinese the Navy Irad

Osborne, and my growing happi-obscured the fact that he had bathlons were started for transport-co-ideologists, will applaud the gene soft,

the farmindedness of ing her possessions from that crossed his face

nesa Why no small port ao-sight and influence.

arms and increas pri But from a small boy's view- Palace to Marlborough House so deciding to furnish

equipment to South Korea. hat in a bed couldvileges that came with seniority. Bcaldes, severe and I

I WOR munications should be addressed not have been mare

Crowing MAIL informed to the Company CHINA

that him

un turrets and daring illa glorious holidays

I was treated less as a child. had

been replaced by cocktail bars.

had begun to make fome real "It wasn't like that in our day, WRA

Charlen?" he would mur friends among, the boys of my I shared thort mur resentfully

That morning, while Bertie and to his life-long term, with whom friend and equerry Sir Charles unique experiences that make

were dressing our valet Finch Chart. "We weren't coddled that boyhood such

a precious thing; appeared with the morning tea. and stretching

before me was the and word that my father wished way, were we?"

withto neo w both downstairs. Navy career, prospect of

LTD.

BIRTH

| ANS-LOW-To_Barbara rice Redi- wood, wife of F.J. Anslow at Queen Mary Hospital on 8th April, a son.

THE NAVY'S FUTURE

Citizens of Hong Kong and Singapore are 29 concerned these days as the people at home (and in many foreign Countries) about the present of the and future strength Roval Navy, for so many de- cades a guarantor of peace to world trade routes, and a mighly striking force in time of war.

It view of thin week's signing of the Atlantic Pact, and the several kites being

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flown for a similar alliance in the Pacific, the matter takes on a more urgent note. We have received an official communique from London subject which is quietly reassuring. It claims

after that

an inevitable period of unsettlement after the war, with demobilisation, breaking up of outworn ships, etc., the Navy is now com- Ing into its own, although it is not up to pre-war strength. In the event of a maritime war, with all the contin- gencies that can now be en«. visaged, the message says that Britain's force is already fully prepared.

At the moment our active flect all

the world over (apart from the ships of any of the other Commonwealth navies} consists of iwo battleships, one fleet aircraft- carrier, four light fleet car- riers, 15 cruisers. 33 destroy- ers, 25 frigates and 30 sub- marines with ancillary vessels and smaller craft. If with the active fleet Britain includes other ships used for training and experimental duties, together with those many in reserve or under. construction, the total,, rises to five battleships, eight fleet aircraft-carriers, 14 light car- riers, 32 cruisers, 121 destroy- ers, 172 frigates and 63. sub- marines, with destroyers and submarine depot ships, repair ships and many smaller craft like motor torpedo. boats.

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Eventunity, by hurd and brasd Ing work during my leaves, 1 managed to pull myself out of the ruck of the bottom class, and was able to writa this letter father:-

The

Fr.

distinct front

the impersonalan to make room for us.

In cne important respect, how- biographer's view-ho toured an

ever, our Elves did not change. one of the best of men, and I sometimes think that he was the At Sandringham, in Norfolk, we

live on in

York lust Englishman to have on un continued to interruptedly good time,

ali ita ginmour and traditions My father's fate was grey with the promise of travel on the seven fatigue and he cried as he told seas and an end, I hoped, to the us that Grandpapa was dead. I

Court answered sadly that we had n tutors and constraints of to my

Royal Standard ready seen the first week of

May 1910 at half-mant. Bertic

My father seemed not to hear found

and me at Mork borough Houre, preparing to re-an he went on to describe in exuut Easter Retail the scene around the death turn to college after an

bed. leave at Frogmore, unmarred by

single nielancholy note. However, my

No doubt my being 'n Prince and in direct line to the

Throne saved the where other boys with out these connections might well have been dismissed.

But I like to think that it was De my own merits that I survived to progress to Dartmouth for the last two years of my naval train- ing ashore.

I took part in genern school activities, and even ang in the choir, an

accomplishment which had the subeldiary attraction of sometimes relieving the choristers from certain parades.

My Brother

Then he asked sharply. "What grandfather half did you say about the Standard?". just returned to London from hie It is flying at half-mast over

to Biarritz in or the Palace." I answered. annual visit health and míbject to severe fit My father frowned and mutter- of coughing:

ed. But that's all wrong," and repeating as to himself the old but pregnant saying. The King is dend. Long live the King," he sent for hin otquerry

In and theperemptory naval manner ordered

He was then rising 70, but it was unthinkable that mere ad- vancing age could halt that gay spirit.

My father rent for morning we were to start back, that a mast be rigged at once on

the roof of Marlborough House

and nidim

lu January 1909, just before i "I have wired the captains of An hour later the Royal Stan- went on to Dartmouth, my brother your two colleges that I want youdard was broken and flying clone (now King) entered | both to remain with me here for luuled over our house, as it was Bertie Osborne also destined for a naval a little longer. The King's condito do wherever iny ather resided ti has taken turn for the during the 25 years of his reign. Since the school'n rigid caste | worse, and the end may not be system did not permit a senior to |far of.”

career.

AT THE FUNERAL of my grandfather King Edward VIL In 1910 Bettle and I walked in the procession, at Windsor behind my father, my great uncle the Duke of Connaught Con his teft, and the German Kalger. Then, followed, seven monarche, the Kingi, of Spain. Portagil, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Belgium and Bulgária. How swiftly, de can out

for most of them.

be seen in the company of a first former, I dared not re-establish which we had always known, there the cleso companionship

However, he was presently boset

In its broad outline, the strength and constitution of the Royal Navy today. shows the pattern of any future naval war at sea

that can now be anticipated. The.. war would be largely an alr war and for strictly offensive purposes we must have "task forces" similar to those used against Japan in the Pacific with behind them a "fect train" comprising a large concourse of tankers, am- munition, store and provision ships, repair ships and so forth necessary to keep the fleet operating at sea for con- siderable periods and far put of touch with a dockyard. year-in which naval aircraft The "task force" itself do not play a prominent part. might consist of four aircraft Or the 145,000 officers" and carriers with aircraft of all men in the Fleet roughly.

-My grandfather Edward VII. died at Buckingham Palace a few minutes before midnight on May |6, 1910.

Difficulties

The atrabi thrown upon my father by the King's death in describable.

or a

For across his grief thrps the urent demands

constitu- tional crisis, arising out of the qur between the Liberals Around Mr. Lloyd George and the Ilouse of Lords. Harder sill for him, the Government decided to pastpone the funeral for fort- night, in order to give the rulers, and representatives of distant nations and possessions time to reach London.

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wal'.

Ar my Investiture as Prince of Wales ar Carnarvon Iwalked to the dais escorted by Lord Kenyon

Up to 20 per cent of the rubber said..to be grown in Malaya is stolen and sold by the bandits.

Good Year for them if they don't tire of it.

The US arms the West And Russia army the East. · With all the frightened zest Of brainless bird and beast. Each styles the other slave And shouts of "Liberty." Why don't they just behave- Anu let the whole! world

be?

IT British Inundries are taken the over by the government, public will expect a guarantee of non-shrinking-bearing in mind what has happened the Em- pire.

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Only Stalin', could tail to see that a defensive phet cannot in any sense be called military alliance.

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For sale Coat, green with black fur, size 16, excellent con- dition.

Apartment wanted - Lafae enough to keep wife, from going home to. mother, small enough to keep mother from coming here.

The six, stages of drunkentiesss as outlined by a doctor recently ate:

"Dry and decent, delighted and devilish; dizzy and delirious: dized and dejected: dead drunk and dead."

A bill has been introduced in Britain making compulsory some form of analgesia in childbirth-- "the giving of rellet without un- consciousness:"

Why not send out a small. packet with the in-

come tax notices?

Hold that Spider. "Tickets: members $10, friends $20 (including Run.ing Muffet.)'t

Tip to local property owners A Paris landlord removed the stairs in an attempt to evict up- per floor tenants whose fat he wanted to let again.

Cottage, leaving my grandmother in possession of the Ble. House During that prolonged

This was a real inconvenience while the dead King lay unburied to my parents, for there was ho Marlborough House becaine a vor room in our already overcrowded tex of activity, with the comings catablishment for the extra staff and goings of Court officials. |which, in the discharge of his

We children were pushed late royal duties, my father required. the background,

emerging only Yet he could not be for the marched grandmother change houses.

afternoon calls to ask

Queen la attitude. caused my mother completed naval college, my Dart- My grandfather's body lag in to point out that it was rather father sent me back to the Throne Room of Buckingham. ridiculous for.

the funeral care- one old Jady to mouth when

monies were over, in grandeur in that vast

By then I bad lost three weeks

tipon our

Queen Alexandra.

Alexandra to ex-

Palace, with the massive bejewell-on while the "King of the summer term, and I was

ed crown upon the coffin.

Four tall Grenedler Guardsmen, Queen lacked room in the con

ut

Sorrow.

But pr

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behind.in

as

my work.

the King's Company stood geiled Collage for a single guest.

gle guest desperately worried over falling rigidly at each corner, roating on

my father

always-imilated. their arms reversed, their bear"It is my mother's home, my My one thought was to resume Akin-capped heads Inclined us in father built it for her." So Queen. quickly as possible my ordered

cadet, life Alexandra remained at Sandring ham until her death in 1925,

terin-mates welcomed, the She closed off my grandfather's inces, yet in a way difficult to back with appropriate conda- room, leaving everything in place express there exactly an if he still were alive. selotisly shong thom a subtle STAW up, uneon- No one ever slept there again as respect for my new status as heir long as Queen Alexandrá lived.

Whenever I returned to

Sand-

apparent. visited

moved up,

My grandmother could not, stay out of the room and was constant- ly rearranging the flowers,

My grandfather was buried on May 20, a hot and sultry day,

Nine monarchs on horseback led by my father as King, rode in the funeral procession from West-ringham, even

As my father had minster Abbey to Paddington there briefly as King, the very air so by the law of succession had 1. Station.

still seemed to be alive with the

World Copyright reserved. Re- throb of King Edward's powerful production, even partially, in any Mersonality.

language, strictly prohibited.

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The Emperor

Emperor William II. of Ger- many, on a white charger and in the uniform of a British old- That afternoon one of his filles, matalial, was at my father's elle. Witch of the Air, won her race at With his spiked moustache and Kempton Park, and.. i remember glittering eye he was an imperious the sad pleasure, with which my gure father walked over from Marl- Knowing my family regardol Eqrough clauso

to convey him with some suspicion. I could Information to his lying take my eyes off him. father the last bit of terrestrialla news boilers the gallant monarch was able to understand.

A hush lay over the dense, per- Waxt morning

I was awakened spiring, and fainting crowds, bro- cry from my brother Bertis, ken only by the sounds of the today the King

horses hoofs, the mournful Inder- From the window of our room

b

by the same difficulties that had he cried "Look, the Royal Stand- nearly overpowered me, and by and is at half-mast" jumped Prearrangement we used to meet out of bed to see, for myself, secretly back of the playing fields.

Bortle would, tell me his new boy troubles, and I would try to advise him on the basis of my cwn experience.

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At Half-Mast Windsor there was the asme chill

Montag that, had been experienced in this Acrous the Hall Buckingham place when Palace stood arey and allent, and mother, Queen Victoris, was lald

mygrestegrand on the roof in the bright morn to rest.

to sunlight the Standard hung With my“.. grandfather's death, imply on the mast.

my parents moved out of the

types working with a couple one-third are engaged upon, DO YOU

duties connected with the air. In order in integrated these dudes completely with

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of battleships and say four or five cruisers to provide the necessary umbrella of anti-aircraft 'guilfire and for those of other branches of: possible bombardment of the Royal Navy it is the Ad- enemy shore positiong, to mirally's intention now to gether with a considerable abolish the air branch as a number of destroyers to as specialised part of the Royal tist with anti-aircraft gunfire Navy and to incorporate off- as well as to "word" off and cera now serving in it in the attack: hollll8 ctúðmářiries. " Navy's executive or -en- The Royal Navy is devot-gineering branches. Thla ing more more attention measure is part of the (pro- to its difalph which has long cess by which flying is be

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