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THE ROYAL MEMOIRS

By

H.R.H.

THE

DUKE

OF WINDSOR

Visit To Germany

War

wore

by

The Irish question was at its perennial crisis, and my father and mother

hockled suffragettes whenever they made a pubile appearance.

"Jealous oyda and greedy hands would like to pluck this delectable frult," says a visiting MP. about | Hong Kong.

All they will get, however, will

be raspberrlos from our stalwart

75.

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I see the North Pole, too, hại had a

Hag day.

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The colorado beetlo is provalent in European polato crops. Because

So remoto was the possibility of its habit of boring from within, of war from the pithlle mind that it is to be re-named the "Gromyko

grub." they took a large party of guests to the Ascot races and threw themselves into the usual social

activities.

Arms linked together, the cole- Noting my startled expression, thuched the elegant figuro which atmosphere in Great Britain was brants would head for the pro- the emperor smiled, and explained (only seven months later would doceptively tranquil. sident's house,. to stand swaying ondescendingly that he WAS BO full before the axansain's fotoful under his bedroom window, chant-seecatomed to sitting on a horse bullets at Sernjevo.

The thought of ing in chorus, "Well rowed, the he had found a saddle more con.

was ducive to clear, concise thinking elusively and persistently in the Wholly aside from his literary than a conventional desk chair. sir, buf, exactly an in 1989, all interests, President Warren's cur-

the "best-informed people" were, To 'Aida'. All news contributiona

pulence would have removed him addressed ID Editor-in-Chief,

wisely assuring one another that The Kaiser's naddle from

was only there would be no war. any conceivable athletic con- Advertisements and Busineas com-

series of exciting nection; nevertheless, all through the first of a

I find from my diary that as munications should be addressed

Into as June 6, 1014, I was plan. to the Company CHINA MAIL the night Hille bands of under-events in store for me.

I dined that night with graduates would deviate to pay the

him, ning, with my father's consent, to president this dubious compliment. the empress, and overal other go chamois shooling in the Tyral In the autumn with my counla As the following sample from members of the family,

lars shown.

The Kainer In a different and Charlie Coburg, the Duke of Saxe- my diary shows. Oxford swiftly

more colourful uniform, led the Coburg and Gotha. opened up a new work

world:

Gorman to text By then it was moro or losa "Dined at Leander at Henley, conversation. In leaving at 10.16 again after a Satinned that

fluency.

understood that I had had enough I had not been of Oxford and Oxford enough of vist cheery meal and got in a wasting my time, he relapsed into me. 11.10. Some men, Damon English which he apeke beauty father was arranging for them, ragged us in their ear the|

I began to learn, an fully, and naked all kinds of me to join the Grenadier Guards. whole way back, and A dealt questions about my parents and he was all for balancing off my with them

педг Magdalen

curly annuciation with the Navy Bridge. Later he fought Dhin English relativen,

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in college for being insulting 1 knocked him out and it was the finest summary Justice I've ever seen Bed at 12.30,"

It las characteristic of collegi

memories that the hell-raising side, in moments of reminiscence momentarily over-shadows dally plodding drudgery which I always associated with study,

a revival of Hong Kong'sate shipbuilding industry, maintenance and repair ser- vices compare at least in quality and cost-favourably with any other port in the world. This in spite of the greatly increased labour charges and the scarcity of material.

In Britain, overall costs are 250 per cent higher than be- fore the war, but despite this fact the yards at Home are turning out considerably more vessels than the rest of the world put together. America, despite prices that would have seemed fantastic 10 years ago, has ambitious plans, mostly on the line of luxury liners, although many of her tramp steamers are temporarily out of use.

It is now being suggested that Germany is hoping in the near future to see her vards in full operation again. Expectations are perhaps

the end of the war,, when the occupying powers laid down station

that the defeated could build

the

Oxford is a serious place and the truth is that my Oxford days, by and large, were Rober, tranquil, and studious. And my spare time wen given to football, punting on the River Cherwell, and long bird walks,

Two Trips

Bost of all, 1 formed new friend. ships, which compensated in part for the uprooted attachments of Naval College.

made no "firsts"

I

And if studied hard.

My mother often came to sen me at Oxford and loved to poko

and Around the historic corners attractive gardens of the ancient colleges, and in the course of many visits primped and fussed my reoma into state of cosiness.

A

Farguhan..

ARMY LIFE began for me in the Officers "Training Corpe when I was still an undergraduate. In the summer på 1914

were in camp for two weeks.

Dinner over, ho excused him- self, only to reappear almost in- My Oxford routine was inter-mediately in

the most dazzling rupted in 1913 by two trips to Gor- uniform of all and whisked me off many, the fir many, the first in the spring, the sinne to the opera for a perform- second in the summer,

да

in France, I travelled with a ance of "Aida"

We swept through the streets party of three-Major Cadogan, ||1m|

German tutor, the learned Dr in a gleaming limousine; a jager gilt a rich greon uniform, in hunting dagger; and cock-talled

my

Finch.

The purpose of

people

no ships more

in my own velns.

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than 1,500 gross tons or with greater speed than

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higher than at any time since | Flodlar, and the trip was to plume rat, rode in front while improve my German and teach me distinctive notes on the horn something a blood dowed strongly

about those vigoreva warned the

40

hold the polica to for the traffic

emperor. But for all the garish uniforms Though

the first World War and his brusque manners Willinin started barely a year later, I must I had undoubted charm confess that na a tourist I never which I caught the full effect. #Red

the approaching calan- trophe.

Next morning, when I reentered his study to take my leave, he was again astride that incredible Bad- dio,

his face, with upturned moustache brooding over, a docu- mont,

knots.

These restrictions were de signed to prevent Germany from building a new navy, and to reduce her peacetime output of U boats and sur- face warships.

hend.

William II.

of

He expressed the hope that I the had learned something of German people from my stay, adding that despite all the terrible things my country thought about them, he and they really were not so difficult to get along with.

And at that impressionable ago believed him.

Self

To make sure that I was kept xccupied my father had me at ached to the 1st Life Guarda, ne of the Household Cavalry re- ziments then stationed at Byde Park Barračke.

But since

•

Bup-press-ed.

In Malta when they don't like what you print, they tell you to put up or shut up.

I'll sing of strife in Araby And choon in Kashmir.

(But pretty soon we'll put

With part and truce and bl-

right

tho officers, along vith the other "tada" around bleckie.)

own, went to parties every night, my diary iltenia, about other things, too.

June 25. "Life โล very pleasant...

I stuck it out to July the bitter end and got back to Buckingham Palace at E...My first ball in London

7.

•

When challenged, our vested Interests have learned to keep their own council,

It seems the Burmese bride was walting at the church whom that there Karen leader went and left

July 8...Duke of Port-hur in the lurch. land's house. My dancing in improving. I get in at 4 and in bed by 4.80.1 was up again 6 and walked to Barracks,

nt

with

Chiang Kai-shek is rumoured to be moving South. Even "Ningpo mere far is uncomfortably near these days.

parading with the composite Squad at 7.30,"

July 23.

A correspondent suggests that Ld. and instead of balling the KMT "war Lasty Farquhar. Pembrokes

off, they should Desboroughs, Ly. Castlereagh, criminais" In

Balfour simply be smothered under a heap Ld. à. Innes-Kerr...

of uncless gold yuan. ́with the and als alator. We all had o

400,000,000 "Lau pei haing" pul-

bear fight,

clothes suffered braken DP ting on a few notes each at a time.

The Indies

were the most hearty.....f

. Rela- tions between Austria and Ser. bla vory strained. I don't like the look of things abroad.

July 24,

Poor Papa 13 having an awful time with the Irish crisis. I naw from Daimler to get an idea of my new car which is going to be something special."

knew

The old riding master

a man

all about young subalterns who had bean up dancing all night.

And with a sardonie expression he would order the horses unsad-

Hong Kong's elect have up to now mostly been relf-elected..

"This crime was the work of a master criminal," said the 'pro- secutor. "and was carried out in a skilful, clever manner,"

"Flattery won't get you,n= where," said the accused. ain't going to confess."

Highest prices pald forted care Send your wife round for

died and put us through the most an appraisal. bone-jarring bareback exercises

that he could think up.

A man who fell down a man-

I was then 20 and this was my hole in a London pavement woke first glimpse of the kind of life up in hospital. He was somewhat which I had taken for granted. surprised, as It was snatched

his last

conscious.

that he was fore I savoured away almost be-thought had been

'ontering a night club, July 21. ** was reading newspapers all night and Papu received news mobilisation.

A Dilemma ·

of Belgium's youth of 20 that question would All this I too never have arisen. In the normal ghastly and that we shall be an course of events I would have the brink of war is almost in enlisted and been sent to France credible....I am v. depressed." and there. in all probability. (I

would have been killed or cer tainly wounded within a

- a yeară On August 8, 1914, the day.be- But as fore the German Army struck into next in line of succession to the "

Prince of Walm and Belgium, I spent part of the after-throne, I was to discover that my noor alone on a squash court at trophy value exceeded my military the Bath Club in Dover-street, bat

ting small rubber ball against a blank wall.

+

Club"

war

The Gormany of my student £ 28

days echoed with work and, song, £ 60

and I judged it to be inhabited by But now the Germans say HK$315 they should build their own

the kindest people in all Europe.

One reason why I felt that way, ocean-going vessels to carry

of course, was that the numerous food and raw materials, earn smaller German courts were filled

ON À TRIP to Norway and save large sums of for-with uncles and cousins and aunts,

all of whom welcomed me, eign currency, and greatly

I learned how to skl At Strelitz I spent some wacks reduce the present cost to

with tho

Grand 91-year-old

and demonstrating the impartial- the Allies. These arguments Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,

War Thoughts have a powerful appeal to my mother's aunt, who told me

What with one thing or another, y expected of the monarchy in Its relation with the two cival the American government, of being taken, when a young girl, my second year at Oxford slipped Services. whose taxpayers are provid- to see George IV., who patted her Balmoral, good fellowship shooting in the Oxford Battalion of the by in a blur of deer-stalking at In fact, I was already a corporsi Ing enormous sums to put

And in the Kingdom of Wurtemat Sandringham, beagling. Prosi Meers Training Corps, and had Germany back on her feet:

berg, now vanished into the limbe dont Warran's dissertations on the spent two weeks in training under and in view of the powerful of Graustark. I stayed in an occasional admonishing notes from

English peels-net to mention canvas near Aldershot. economic pressure the U.S. ornats palace at Stuttgart as guest can bring, it may be that of King. William and Queen my father about my taking life post-war restrictions will Charlotte, whom I called "Onkel more seriously.

As matters turned out, that Willy" and "Tante Charlotte." The "position" about which my episode ended my connection with shortly be altered.

Quite apart from the family re- father was continually reminding Oxford. To Britain the argument iationship, protocol required me

me now began to take form,

It is a little disconcerting. to understandably seems dan- as Prince of Wales to pay

In November 1919 Archduke realise how little I learned there. J British ships are courtesy call upon Emperor Wil

Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent gerous.

But the fault does not lie with to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, | valuable earners of foreign Ham

But, with singular obtuseness,

Paid

an off

official visit to England Oxford. The heads of Its learned

dons

wero crammed with crudi- currency, and a revival of

tlon; what they did not know German shipping would hit the Kaiser, in inviting me to visit and was put up at Windsor,

him on August 31, added that he Deciding that the time had stored on the shelves of the Bod- Britain's recovery. The U.K., expected me to stay over for the come to induct me into court and lelan Library. too, has had to fight a des- annual parade celebrating the

diplomatic waye, my father. had In retrospect, it seems * pity

Oxford 10 par- that struggle for French aurronder at Sedan in 1870. me come from

I did not have the imagina- pernte

Now the French joined with

$70. ticipate survival in two world wars, in the Entente Cordiale, would

sumptuous enter-tion to realise that in thoes diffi- tainments.

cult studies which I treated 80 and is not anxious to open certainly have taken a poor vlow I wore the Windsor uniform-cavalierly were the keys to matiy the way to the building of

of my presence at such awes and gilt buttons; and under my present world lon, and a paverted only by the father's appraising eve began my

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Ing beside my father, I watched lently, and bomb damage and the diffl- I knew him distantly, of course, him pull the pheasants down out placos, mostly, two fest doop In culty of raising loans. They from his spectacular descents upon of pull th

little

island, but at the have, however, kept as many

Konigliches Schloss, on Unter den

No suggestion of tragedy then Yet in June and July 1914, the as possible of their skilled Linden, in Berlin, I saw him for workmen, to enable work to the first time in his own environ be resumed at top capacity ment. a coon as restrictions, ara Arriving in the late afternoon, DO YOU lifted, hours and their rate of pay

They work longer was taken at once to the em

peror's rooni.

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risen from wooden block shaped KONG? offered to do repair work on like horse's back; to this was isome Indian ships in 10 days | girthed a military saddle, for 23,400 The best British plate with stirrups. tender was 23 days and

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A week or so earlier, in a flash King, in the midst of the criam, used long enough to tell me of happiness, & had

In Raused exclaimed my diary: "I don't know how 1

that I

I must wall in London until. "suitable should live without the Batli found for me.

employment" could be But the sudden fact of What this decision, on the fe made it

the

of war, meant to me can be important place on earth,

lonely Judged from the entry mide in That afternoon I WAS

The war that my diary that night before, I

went to bed at and frustrated

Buckingham would

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