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Coronation Year Special: A Review of the Role of the Queen and the Monarchy

ELIZABETH'S HERITAGE

The Crown's Part In The Business Of Government

By the distinguished historian

Sir CHARLES PETRIE

Not long ago

LREADY the fiercest moro closely. They feel, too, ef government in Ottawa, and;

the young Canberra as in Longori light is being turned instinctively that

Queen sympathizes with their If a republic were put in its upon our young ameulles, and they are right: place the result would be that Queen and her office. but is not easy for her to the British Commonwealth of Everything that she says or bridge the gulf that must neces Nations would fall apart, and does is news, not only in the sarily lle between her and then. anarchy on a large scale might was in a book casily follow. This is not just British Isles but everywhere

but 15 outside the Iron Curtain. hop when foreigner entered monarchist propaganda,

u rober statement of fact. and asked for a copy of the

It is obvious that in these cir- She will be criticised on British Constitution, only to be

the personality of extremely surprised this ground or on that, and exi

when he cumstances only she herself can take a was told that such a thing did the King or Queen is of the first not exist. Yet he was not to be

be Importance and during recent realistic view of her posi- blamed for his ignorance, since reigns Britain has been tion.

in almost every other country tremely fortunate in this in the world the Constitution is CC written, and coples are readily obtainable in the shops.

At home she will tend to be regarded primarily as the Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but she can never for- get that in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand she is looked upon In those countries us their

Queen too,

of that the

In Britain, on the other hand, there is no such thing as a writ- ten Constitution, and this na- turally tends to make more

dimeult the task of those who

Few Clashes

Thus Queen Elizabeth I in have to work it. already realising the truth Napoléon's remark monarchs are always on stage, and this is especially the ense in a Royal Family with traditions like our own.

THERE arc, It is true one or two Acts of Parliament re- sulting from the Revolution of 1888 which specify certain things that the Sovereign may not do, and

certain which exclude

to.

The people are looking to the Throne as never before for guidance in their own lives, and sa they are examining the con- people from the succession duct of Its occupant the the Throne, but that is all.

St Edward's Crown (shown above) is the Crown of England and is the Crown with which ali oor Monarchs have normally been crowned. Also seen is the Orb, which is placed In the Sovereign's right hand Immediately after donning the Royal Robe; the Sceptre with Cross, Royal Sceptre, which is placed in the Sovereign's right hand at the Coronation; the Sceptre with Dove and the Sovereign's Ring. The last is the Sovereign's personal property. (Crown Copyright Reserved)

con-

ex-

ress-

replying to the toast of the Royal Family at a public dinner Consort, husband of Queen Vic- so long agony 1833 the Prince

scita, said: "In the progress of the Royal Family through life is reflected,

as it were, lar pro- Rress of the generation to which they belong, and out of the common sympathy felt for them arises an additional bond of union among the people them- scives."

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH H

never been one with a greater sense of duty.

It is arguable that he by no means. always took the right coutre, but he certainly-nover acted from an unworthy molive. He lacked many of his father's. virtues, as well as one or two of his weaknesses, but when all the facts are known the verdict of history may well be that he saved the British monarchy in an age of revolution. "

New Links

ASTLY, there in the into King,

George VL-Hé camo, to the Throne in unhappy ciegumstances which are foo well known to call for description here, but by his Interpretation of his duties. ho forged new links between the Royal Family and the people of Britain.

The great contribution which the Throne made to the national life during his reign was to pro- vide a symbol of stability ond continuity in a changing world, and just the right impression.wai made by the spectacle of its occupant doing his duty quietly' and unostentatiously

WON

A

On all sides there deplorable lack of unity; every- where the politicians were strering what keeps men apart rather than what brings them. together, but King George VI saw to it that the Crown was at once the emblem and the hope of a more sone state of affairs..

What history will say of him remains to be seen, but of one thing there can surely be no doubt he left the monarchy a great deal stronger than he founkh

1t.

In this task di would be im-

It is just because they do itcep created a widespread bellef that upon which the monarchy itself possible to exaggerate the assist in touch with their contem- Queen Victora would be the last rested.

ance he received from his consort, Mother. now Queen Elizabeth the Queen

poraries that they are able to English sovereign Then the Society in the Victorian ere full the duties of their high unexpected happened, and by despised what it called trade, her quite exceptional talents she and the pages of contemporary office so admirably.

More Experience The Sovereign musi always proved that the monarchy

novelists contain many exam- exercise the greatest care that as necessary to the industrial ples of such prejudice. It was, UCH is the background of State of the 19th century as incidentally, a somewhat illogi. the new Queen In had been in our cæller age.

For the rest, the business of, he does not evon appear to take government so far as the Crown sides in any of the questions is concerned, depentis on

that may from time to time vention and precedent, while divide his subjects. As Charles the personality of the monarch 1 rightly observed, "The Eng- and his or her Ministers plays lish nation are a sober people," no small part.

is no In but there are occasions when icrpreter of their respectiva they lose their heads, and it is rights and duties, and it speaks at such volumes for English

#there

common

moments that their

sense that there have been so futons have to be most care

gene

the

that

IVOS

Its direct political power of cal attitude, in view of the fact addition she has herself al

that what was terined society ready crowded Into her 20 diminished with tho was largely composed of the years more experience than complexity of adminis- children and grandchildren of probably any of her subjects of tration, but its indirect in the profiteers of the Napoleonie the same age. Nor is this ex- fluence increased out of all re- Wars,

engnition.

It was a period of middle- class. predominance, and the Queen won its allegiance, ther by preventing that

republicanism as drifting into happened in more than опо Continental country.

An Example

KING Edward VII and his son

perience confined to the British leles and to Europe, for she has visited both Africa and America. In effect, she enjoys all the

of

advantages both of heredity and

upbringing Finally, the is married to Prince Philip of Greece and

class from KIN

scl their faces against any ruch folly. In their reigns le sovereign once encre delighted, to Denmark, now Duke of Edin-..

It may please a few unthink honour any who showed them burgh. He comes from one af misht the eldest and most capable royal They tamilles in the world, and it has

ing people to sneer at the Vie- elves worthy, whatever torlun ern for its alleged dull- have been thele orielu.

Queen Victoria made the Crown national again given monarchs to Denmark, ness, but had

The greatly loved NBETT

not realised the Importance of omale been followed the Greece, and Norway.

the Crown as a unifying forco exemple been followed abroad

there would be more thrones In Alexandra, the consort of King I might easily have become an

Edward VII, was a member of ag of strife und disunion. Europe today. Above all, she understood 50 King George V was destined the same royal house, as is the readily the new responsibilities to have little real during his 20 Duchess of Kent. In our time of Empire, to was seen at the years' reign freen 1910 to 1938, the Duke of Edinburgh's cousin, Diamond Jublice hi '1887.. for he was called upon to deal King George T. of the Hellenes, Then, in 1001, came King with the first world war, and its was Britain's loyal and constant

aily in the recent war. Edward VII., one of the ablest disturbed aftermath,

Such is the heritage and such

1

monarchs to sit on the British or Much of the secret history of is the occupant of the throng any other thrane. He proceed that period is still of necessity today. ed to abandon some of the ex- undirolesed, but of one thing clusiveness that had charac- there can be no question: these terised his mother's relations-have-been--abler--and--more- with the outside world, and he romanil: kings of England than thereby broadened the basis King George V but there has

Folkestone

Tomorrow: THE SOVEREIGN'S ROYAL POWERS

Inventor's

Anti-Snoring Gadget

That this has so rarely hapINV

few clashes in modern times. The great strength of

One is inclined or

Throne is the belief of the or to take; fr granted the smooth working of diary man in the street

impartial the Constitution in normal clr occupant is an

By J. W. TAYLOR cumstances,

and to forget that umpire, and any suspicion that this is only achieved by ciernal such is not the case would do:

untold harm.

[NVENTIONS to

or blow" bom' a vigilance, not least on the part

atop "light tap

a trough along the lower edge sharp or blunt instrument, to catch the near misses. of the Crown, which often has, pened is not the least of the tri-

snoring; to prevent sea whichever is most effective, to moderate the bitterness. of"

To increase personal, energy.. parly strife to achieve this re- butes that must be paid to Queen sickness, no matter how bad

!proposed sult.

John Victoria and her successors, and the weather; to extract gold egy-four years earlier, a Mr another inventor

Heddam, of copper and zinc sheets in fool from London, had an from sea-water

idea based on wear so that the moisture of the For example, when Mr Bal before har our present Queen four's Conservative Government

a rocking-chair more or less the aime principle feel would make a voltate cell.

"o be applied to, coffin's and resigned in 1905, King Edward can thus draw confidence from wheat;

the success of the Inst four vacuum-cleaner; reversible the like for the saving of buried A rocking chair which actuat- VII asked the retiring Chler Secretary for Ireland, ine late generations of her ancestors.

trousers; bayonets for aero- living persons." This describes ed a suction bellows connected

whereby apparatus

tho to a pipe whose other end lay. planes; aluminium bibs, and an his to Family Background waterproof wristbands to burled alive would start an indolent housewife to read the breathing of thèse necidentally on the carpet enabled the

moisture ciccirle bell ringing.

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Mr Walter Long, Liberal successor

cee

the problem of Irish administra- dion with him,

In the difficult took which les

or

"the

wrists when eating cording to the patent of

11

Fad

WHEN on June B'last, for the intercept

first time for more than 50 running down the hands' To avoid sea-ckne, a the dirt at the same time. years, the band played "God Save and

Queen" on the the

Guards Parade as the Colour of

HCT crayfish" are among some of French physician, all that

needed is

memory was stirred.

These curiosities-form only

"I know," sald the King, "when governments change, the outgoing Ministers do not treat their successors in

for

passengers to be the same the Scots Guards was trooped. the curious ideas patented plead on a kind · of conscelina way as they would if it was mere change of allee under the earlier Queen many a dormant hundred years.

for those who remembered an in 'London during the past filled with steam. The concertina knall part of the display, which is connected to the main supply largely concentrates on the out- same government and they were

by by an to be followed by members of

scientific and "in=" Ingenious": "four-way standing Their specifications have been cock which blows more steam dustrial devices which have When Queen Elizabeth II their own party. This is nt course, natural, and as a rule no rode on to

the ship, falls, and charged our way of life. the parade-ground centenary the general public in in when

feeling in the a centenary exhibition organised loss when it riscs, so that the past hundred years he motor 29 But the uppermost doubt right; but the case uf

minds of the thousands of by the Patent Offee, Ireland is an exceptional; one.

passengers on top of the gadget the aeroplanes and the spectators was that she repre-

do "not, in-

theory, feel any aerial bomb, Fleming's 1904 Parsons 1884 The anti-storing gadget was motion at all. Strange that such wireless valve,

simple, economia. device steam turbine Baird's tele- been vision, Whittle's jet propulsion, in Watson-Walt's rudat,i nuclear

fissions and atomić energy.""

Mr

the g rendly fell in with scented hope for the future, ---

suggestion, and spons She scoined in a materialistla

an

evercome

two long mornings w

* with Mr age to symbolise your and serpatented by a Folkestone man should not have Bryce, who was succeeding him. vico, as well as to be the en in 1931. It consists of

It is no exaggeration

alow. lnrised, ta to say bodiment of a tradition to thich electric circuit with that the Crown is the pivot on

hor

powered battery that is attached universal scourge,

· countrymen owe są much.. which the whole Briilth - Con-

The woods of the personal microphone,

to the snorer's wrist. A stitution turna. Que bas only to qualities which Inspire this glance through the newpeper timent were sown in a family "low frequencies

almost

any tiny in the week to

is exceptionally fortunate.

responsive to the by generated

effects of collisione';

the

One million Inventions have teen recorded since the earliest known English' patent was

Cabinet Ministers, bishops, and cepted and respected, dates from | venter wwco tho mere fact the reverse the direction of Cambridge,

thơ, NGI

enging.

person

erson snoring" Sounds An Another invention of 1884 granted in 1449 by Henry the how many things are done to in which the Queen extremely loud eizetrie bell close does away with the disastrous Sixth to John of Utynam for in the name of the Sovereign The British monarchy in it to hung

00: stained glass for the windows in Trom

the appointment of midden form, that is to say ac- "It has been

been found," Bio In

In merely aliips' bullms which on the King'a chapels, at Eton and """that" by Heimpact, judges down to matively mindr the reim, of Queen Viatorki, of such a

Pants Until the Patent Offled waE posta. The same is true of the Under the earlier rulers of the thank the bell'or other`alarm will The roventbla trousers Installed in 1852, the grinting self-governing Dominions and House of Hanover the Crown be operated by the person patented by a London talior in of patente was an exceedingly the Colonial Empire, for. Wie Crown

is every bit as important. Dad become throfighly dil, storing in some cases has 'guch · 1007, were designed to""'equalisa" compilaated, affair, involving.

credited, and "although ** the

effect on the sub-conscious the wear, and were: outolike overseas as it is at home eltuation improved for a time mind as to stop the person behind and in fronte numerous visits to sixteen om- Acer At two of the staged, tha Euch being the case the mon- under Goorge U17, his son and noting, ot all"

Mom The hygienic aluminium bib Sovereign's personni alimature archy concerna

But should that not happen (it could also be made of silver was required. The 1832 Act every Eriti successor, George IV. kat a very wubject Sei whatever part of the bana escocple Androdka Pand

the snorer - la wakened by the for wealthy dienis) fooited almplified the process sindh world he or she lives, and if 1 The low repute lato. which wase of the bell; and if oven, rather » Ike a Household roduced the registration – feu sus viial a part of the machinery the aprono ; fell at the time that tulle, ho may recolvo, a Cavalryman's breastplate, with from £100 to £25,