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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1951.

THE

PRINCESS MARGARET ENCYCLOPÆDIA

FOURTH DAY

beginning

Q

'Queensmanship'

THE PRINCESS: must clearly be skilled in what Stephen Potter might call "Queensmanship," the art of never quite being able to forget who she is.

When she goes away to stay with friends it is never a case of just “asking Margaret down." Preparations of the most elabonte sort are considered essen- tial, even by a hostess who has known her since babyhood. "A bedroom with its own bathroom and accommodation for ́a' lady's maid are always provided,

For a proper princess should never be. seen skipping along a corridor in slippers and bathrobe.

However gay the party, how- ever else the friends, no matter how soft and sweet the music. the Princess is always the Pieve beautifully dressed

the others are therr, whatever the. weight of the hostess's diamonds, whatever the length of the crebrity guest 19, the Princers manages to turn the most heads.

Like the skilled Queensmán she is, the Princess knows how to get the best out of being the daughter of King.

A

But she makes sure that the jcb of being a Princess has flourish of fun to it, too.

Example: She was at a beau'l- ful ball, and, as is the custom, the hostess had arranged that every young man present should dance with her.

complied by DRUSILLA BEYFUS

SON-IN-LAW TO THE KING.

MATCHING THE MEN-AROUND PRINCESS MARGARET WITH THE FACTS ABOUT PRINCE PHILIP

KANS

WEALTH Y ESTATES T

Prince Philip

Noos

Nope

Prince R. Navy

·British

Heir to

Lord Datkelth

Mark

Yes

Dukedom NV.R,

British

Ya. 27

Yos

None

Bonham Carter

None

Quarda

British

Yes 20

Lord Ogilvy.............

Yes

Yea

Heir to Exridon

Guarda

British

Ankle-strap

Bling-back

Pattern Court

Bee B for RUMOUR

evivate.

Yes 20

His job is to make Persia think twice

From FREDERICK COOK.

New York. paltered out into an astonish- Averoll Harriman, Mr ingly complete picture.

Lovy shooter-in-chief, the dark of the war as

returned to London In the thick member of the haired man shuttling back, Joint Chiefs of Staff Enemy Oil and forth with him Committee and sat in on some between London and of the most secret discussions. Teheran is simply "Walter After postwar service with the

But to the people who matter private all consultant.

Morahall Plan. he became a

persuading

thai,

before

0

in the White House Walter J.

Long

the Levy is the world's top expert Prem

Persian on petrol. That is why Harri- te

Premier had glyon Britain's man has taken him along to help taste of their own brew, Levy

enthusiasts nationalisation had prepareti a study showing what the lors of Persian oll could be found and also what would mean, where other oil. would happen to Persia.

while it is temptingly easy to overtake their all, it is quite different affair to turn it into high-octane petrol, haul it across the world and find buyers for

WORKED, IN LONDON

Then there are rumours--as there were a year agolhat

It was this study that per incess Margaret is to become engaged, we learn how eligible

suaded Harriman to take Levy the man, how well-endowed he tr, hoTD L to be son-in-law

along on his ticklish mission. the King Yet, as the chart shows, Price Phip has few

The way it worked out, as f what might be considered the conventional requirementa

Juet 40, clean-shaven, stocky, we understand it," said, a top has the right to be herself. Is it "Electra," by Sophocles, "Three Englishman today if we had not man let Persla know It wasn't Levy might have been an American ollman, "is that Harri- necersa: that her present utter Sisters" by Chekov, "Streetcar had a second world war, He any good counting on America ances continue in the present Named Desire," "The Heiress," unnatural vein of Pail Mail Alec Guinness's interpretation at six German universities and supplant the British, and left was bom at Hamburg, educated to produce the technicians_to penderialty

and Victorian "Hamlet" the plays by the post the London School of Economics it to Levy to show what it all

wa French dramatists, the modern Italian opera

The (where he admired Lanki with meant for her in terms of ships, Consul," and all those Shaw out becoming a convert). He prices, and technical know-how

Persians left his homeland for good when things

apparently the Nazis came to power. For a didn't know existed." while he worked on a petroleum HIS EMPTY LIGHTER · trade paper in London. He loved Levy has done well for him- it there, But war came while self too in the last couple of he was still a German,.

ycare. The business that he He was not Interneð, · But his started in a one-room offleo late status pozed problems. And when" In 1949 now makes well over he suggested he might do more 100,000 dollars a year, and it is good In America no 'difficulties growing fast. He and Mrs Levy were placed in his way. In a (she was a Sondheimer of the matter

of weeks America's Frankfurt merchanting dynasty) fabled cloak-and-dagger 099— have a town flat and a pleasant the wartime intelligence agency country place in Connecticut. -had taken him up. He became There are two children, five- boss of ità petroleum section. year-old Robert, and Busan; not

Not only did he already know quite two.

Plain Court

Ses 8 for SHOES

also for “The Set

THE YOUNGER PALACE SET. snow, and ever more shall be, the ghest le clique in the world. By comparison, the Ladies of Criatere kepi open house.

the

The young Princess almost always gots around with same crowd. They are the rice young people who first mee Beress prams in the park, who Llways un up at each other's cherin's

parties, whore stately homes Mummy and Daddy know

points

30

zame scho=1.

But whatever show she goes to, she always sits in the very best scabs. (Except for one recent Ocension when she roughed it in Row F, the next one to the 58. 03. reps)

U for

Underground

THE PRINCESS made

one

The Princers is always teasing well, whose brothers go to the the nice young and him about they say, and pece who so chien marry each Daiketh is rarely amused (this other with the as brides- year he swiftly dented

mese malds and ushers who produce official ride on it, when she was rumours of a romance as "foolish Anglo-Saxen babies and start the nine. Inner Circle Line, and absurd").

rociul round once again. ........

(TO DE CONTINUED

TOMORROW).

It was the turn of a rather wan the man they call my husband," young Guards officer. He marched was about to whirl the Princess smartly up to her, bowed, off, when a great friend of the Princess dropped by. And that was the nearest the wan young

"Though they have shared the man got to having the dance,

"You shouldn't have dene that, same sor: cf upbringing, their This is the pace of the Margaret

for to eculd hardly be. Clan, the clan that consists Ma'am," said a brave girl friend. taste

"Wouldn't you?" come the more differem," is the general Lady Caroline Mentegu-Douglas- Szolt (recently married to Ins reply,

niece of the Duchess ef

Earl of Dalkeith; Rosy Churchill,

Ꭱ .

Rumours

SO THEY SAID:-

summary.

ct

also for Religion ster, and her brother, the

AS THE KING is "Supreme daughter of the Duke of Max- Governor of the Churr of berough; Laura Smith, whate England" ("ce Book of Common mather was a member of the

2:0

the Germans oll resources as But the man they call the wall as the top people in world's top all expert has, not Wilhelmstrasse, he turned out solved a petrol problem of his besides to be "wizard at match- bwn. The lighter on hla desk Ing up scraps of apparently un-, doom't work. There is no petrol related Informatlan - until ' they in It..

The

GREAT BETRAYAL

0

By T. R. Fyvel

who has been a Sea Ranger for Lyon (her aunt and uncle), Lady that after one evening when the that day an incredulous cow, Wont out from Mos-, with Hitler, which

The

is

Patriota

Shoes

sent Ribbentrop the

of

and

iet draft

to-manoeuVTE.

Prayer) he and his family must Royal Household; Rae

Rachel Brand he members of this branch of the fa

fcour Mrs William Douglas- Home) and Susan Hornby, great "The Princess pulled a plug Church.

Princess Margaret was there. Rirl friends of Lady Caroline: out of the bottom of the boat

baptized according when she was having a rowing, for

o Patrick Plunkett, Equerry to the lesson on the lake in Windsor Anglas tiles on October 30, King; Peter Ward, whose people Park, just wanted to see 1930, when she was ten weeks are close friends of the Windscr;

NE of the strangest world to form a united front of Western governments wanted Lord Oglivy, whose what would happen, she said." old.

the

and most fateful resistance against Hitler, that anything but a Nazl-Soviet war. the

private chapel at friends of the Royal Family; and "Nonsense." commented

"assassin of the working classes." In this dilemma, they had no her god satenishingly few others. Princess's Press officer, Diana Buckingham Palace

dates in modern his- Yet oven while this official chales but to enter into a pact Rese Leveson Lykelion. "How could anyone parents-Lady

might buy It is far from surprising, then, tory is August 23, 1939. On propaganda Gower, the Hon, David Bowes-

sell-out

was being them time and better, strategic years do a' thing like that?"

Princess was invited to a small world heard that Hitler's by Hitler for his invasion of

Arranged.

The first date axed frontier, even though it meant SO THEY SAID:-

Hamsay Prince Georgo

that they might temporarily Cher "Princess Margaret is 20 to. unele), and Princess Victoria theatre party of friends whom Foreign Minister, Ribben- Poland was August 28, 1989. morrow. Many of her friends (her Erzal-sunt)-brought her to the had never met before (except

the Boviet

profes・・ friendship for Nazi are certain that she has a birth the Archbishop of Canterbury, D the host) she wrote and said: trop, had arrived at Mos- It was on August 19 that Molotov av to ald Hitler and even to

"Thank you so much.. Cosmo Lung. day secret. They say it is her He baptized her in the names been such fun to meet some new tika-flags fluttered beside which cave

me new cow, where the Nazi swade of the "Part of Non-Aggression" whole pact was a purely tactical

Hiller "engagement."

man whose name of Margaret Rose, with Jordan people.

the Hammer and, Sickle, go

ahead. The secret protocol romantically linked with the water in the Royal Family's pura

that also for

and that Stalin and Hitler to this gold lily

pact stated explicitly the Princess is the Earl of Dalkeith,

countries of Eastern Europe Three queens of Scotland þad.

had signed a pact. It was were to be divided into Nazi and. It is possible that Stalin and in Paris several newspapers becn Margaret;

one of her THE PRINCESS has changed.

cynically called have confidently reported that mother's names was Marguerite her mind about what to put en

Zones a' non- Soviet

Influence. Molotov had a distorted view, of their engagement will be an- Rose

nggression pact but, quite was to survive was to be this were so, they should surely

Whether any Independent Fellah British foreign policy. was the emblem of the her nest ittle size four foot."

But K nounced."

House of York.

A year ago the nearly always patently, it made. Hitler's settled by the two dictatorships have realised their mistake when According to the hard theory As she grew up the Princess's

Fitx September 1939, went of royal romance, the young religious studies were directed by stepped out in the shoes the invasion of Poland and the in friendly agreement.

day's later Hitler's to

as promited, when, sonably

the Dean of Windsor, Dr R. R. Royal Family seem to like best. start of the second world Seven

Invaded Poland; and even Dalkeith, Hambien, and on April 15, 1946, The regal fotwear tends to be war a certainty.

frontier. Since Britain and more: In 1040 when Britain FOU

"has everything a he assisted the Archbishop of claberate, mid with platform

Franes: stood by the Polish continued the war alone against soles, a sling-back back, and could want in a

model Cane Cenfirmation in the rivare often a patterned ankle strap.

alliance, the Second World War the Nazis. And yet, throughout at her Scn-in-law." (See Chart.)

thapel of Windsor Castle. So for (5ce pleture.)

had begun,

(0) 1940, Stalin continuéd.10- He is heir to an historic name,

Supply the Dukedom of Buccleuch

the Part fre

Hitler with war, material.. years

Recently the Princess has father is simply, known as The

has been Margare

No, the whole excuse, put # com- apparently moved towards more ing for the setting up of a system

forward by Western Commúnista Duke in the Scottish lowlands, municant.

restrained standards of elegance. of collective security against the When she chooses to marry First she cut out the ankle straps,

Nazi-Soviet collaboration did and fellow travellers resis on where they have quite a few).

Nazis, a fairy Pink

castle, Drumlanrig, she will not be allowed to have then the allng-back concentrat

I first heard of the pact at not stop with the partition of the fallacy

that the Soviet where they have only the best as husband a member of the

Eastern Europe whereby Hitler Government

must from Its ing instead on the classic simple Marsellies, in the south

of occupied Western Poland while nature have been apposed to troca in the park, abbut 500,000 Roman

man Catholle F Fath

France, and I was struck by the Stalin annexed Eastern Poland Hitler barbariam, in fact, a acres of land in all and then

***

Whenever she allends Matis court shoe. (See pictures.)

atmosphere of depression, bo- and the small Boughton, the residence, or Evensong she hears the "Prayer. A study of photographs shows wilderment and

Balile there is

of Soviet announcements states. reading fear in the and as splendid a selling as may for the Royal Family" following the her heels are a good half-These Marsellies workers may Hitler turned west for new Soviet rulers, being as much or port. During the next 20 months, as of the time shows that the i could wish for. There are the "Prayer for the King's inch higher than the Queen or well Reel especially badly about campaigns silver chandeliers, a gift from Majesty." She hears her mother, Frincess Elizabeth wear, and

of aggression, fold friend Chariss II, meze Gainsborough her grandmother, and her sister good deal smarter.

Soviet Government

the more than the Nazis no provided to

la govern through secret many of them him with a steady flow of vital concentration paintings then dhey сал And mentioned by name."Almighty

themselves."

and a naval, base, perlodie, purged, YouPo

"art Possible,

18

they

king

rcom to hang,

(his

The earl is 27 years old. "He's got red hair and wears baggy trousers," said a girl friend. Soon hay tell you that his iden of an antertaining evening, is a dinner with a couple of friends at the club, and a game of back- acmmon at sixpence a point,

"I really think that Johnr.y prefers his trees and his animals

• mes: people," "e:mmented a friend, |thus|・・ providing the Spothornera view of the Sects-

man.

The Princess stays at the earl's home frequently. (His

Princess

and, the

fountain of all goodness, Ged, we humbly beseech Thee to bless. our gracious Queen Elizabeth, - Mary, the Queen: Mother, the Princess Elizabeth, and a the Royal Family.

Sfor

for Spooches

TA

for

the Theatre

I can still remember that day. It was a tense time with Hitler almost on the point of unleash 1ng war. In Moscow a British- French delegation was_negotiat="

me.

ime you see,

the news French

a

are Communists

this

the

armles roared across the Polish towin

"war" materials

and

, of course, the French Com- near Murmanik, from which his feetly easy to conduct a pro-Nazi munlats had every

every reason to feel warships and submarines could foreign polley. As for the or apprehensive.

dinary Soviet citizen, after the attack British whipping. events set in motion by

Yet the

the most startling Soviet years of mass liquidations and volte-face was probably on the Imprisonment, his viewn certainly ideological front. Up to August no longer mattered.

cynical' manoeuvre of Stalin's, they were soon to be placed under the yoke of the Gestapo.

bis

future

1939, Moscow had proclaimed

collective security against Nazi

German aggression to be

fundamental aim of Soviet Com- There is, another noteworthy. as aspect to this, crucial ¡date,

George, MAN"Mis usual affödforward,gressive war on

imagines.:

some of

erous

● 18 SHE LOWBROW? RECENTLY the Princess saw the Brst night of “Kiss Mr, Kale". at Oxford. She had already scen “Anike Ge: Your

But the Nazi-Soviet pact munim. After that day as Gun and Oklahoma the Novella murical

of August 13, 1939 signined far suddenly as though a different August 23, 1939, it marked an- more than this. It signiand the button had been pressed an a other step forward in the "King's Rhapsody" ALL TOO sccustomed as she is Gang at the Victoria Palace, beginning of a new technique of radio set, the Fuehrer of Nazi totalitarian perversion of the

to Germany

was presented as a words "peace and " to saying a few words, the Danny Kaye at the Palladium, cynicism in politics, leading

October

ober 2, 1939, even while planning ag- Princess rarely manages to sound Bob Hope at the Prince of Wales. the absolute totalitarian of peace a

when Hitler pul

an" "exact cynicism portrayed sister remetely like herself. Listen, to

● IS SHE MIDDLEBROWS the voice of the Palace as the:

also, Orwell In

and schedule, Hiller was young Pr

running his gigantic Nuremberg Princess speaks:

SHE SAW Terence Ralligan's where the

them as „describes

zally as part of a campaign. "Meny

my Who Sylvia?"; Senarations

Fry's "Ring state Orwell ancestors have travelled by way: Round the Moon," Nancy Mit-

for the name of peace". Just as the change its polley overnight and genuine and practical basis” of Datchet on their way between fond "The Lžile Hut, and the the chorus of its automalle pro-

speedy end to the war. The Soviet Government of today is London and Windsor, and 1-my- Lyric Review at the Hammer peganda is so perfected that self have passed through your smith,

can take up a new line of at- rumosite of Britainí, vand ì running its Berlin "Youth: Peace". were described as the Festival" while maintaining historic villago more times than

ack without even a moment's protagonists of war, and Mos nearly 300 divisions on war

cow called on Western Com- fooling,

●IS SHE HIGHBROW? Interruption. charm and lovely aid houBES

UBER SHE SAW. Shakespeare's

The

srupt turn-about of munists to frustrate the plan of There were certain unhappy The Soviet policy on August 22, Antony and Cleopatra,"

noting this cynical Soviet Jug the Soviet leaders almost any Englishmen have met to engte Night when the Old Vic and bout it. Up to that very day and war even this early Hitler's blur that he was aiming gling with the words "peace" thing but not their support of in their traditional pastimes, and

for peace. They should res spirit backie)"His Excellency !! of herch) And whenever she doss of rivalry in whleby they vied 17 3. misce The Cocktail Party mon The Bumcastaneup gain with each other has bred in them and Fry The Lady's Not for d

* DALKEITH, a duke's lon

"I can remember, and admired. Mak

· *14: lías been a (pisor? where winter's Tale," and "Ewelin had something

of this the "warmongers. Die worth..people in 1939 wiro could forgive

The

Communists had been pro-

striving

Carolipe, attrally close friend the friendly but dolormined to reopened, but she hasn't been "siming that the Soviet Govemu dale, GEDERLAGEEN Aer, this fact when considerő: BADmzdy when she was there; that orné, of fair play for, which the aperice ASANTEAEDADANA Coffate a

shade for, a treaty of; sil12. trying toʻmepinin' and yaxsing the Boviet

Flanced Englishmang will always be: diam through 20 andersing paperabead Hogained (Speech at Datchet

*Nat,much

#curlly

Some Soviet sympathisers are:

with Britain, buss :) Soviet - conducti~. The

with that one,

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