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THIS is the second part of the Duke of Windsor's coronation memoirs, in which he sets down certain thoughts ovoked by the approaching coronation of his niece, Queen Elizabeth II. In last Saturday's instalment, the Duke described the coronation of his grand- father, King Edward VII, and also discussed the many changes and social upheavals that have taken place since that time, Today he sets out what he considers ·45 King Edward VII's contribution towards popularising the monarchy, and takes the reader up to the death of that beloved King and the coronation of King George V, at which, as Prince of Wales, he played a leading part,

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S matters turned out British Conservative opinion by my grandfather's es- s pro-Boer sentiments and who nów. incensed the hereditary timate of his OW cinss by his outspoken attacks ability proved over- on privilege. modest. In many respects.

Toward the end of King his reign was a brilliant one. With an intuitive under ward's reign Lloyd George became Chancellor of the standing of what the British Exchequer, His revolution- people expected of their ary "people's budget” of 1000, royal family he restored to proposing higher taxes

other financial measures on a the State ceremonial theate

Leafe many then considered con splendour and precision it featury, which precipitated the had lost during his mother's political crisis that cirkened the widowed retirement.

I days of my grandfather's life and clouded the first days of my father's reign,

COLLISION

and

HE House of Lords being pre-

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THE PRINCE OF WALES SCARED OF THE ABBEY

THE AUTHOR

A NEW PHOTOGRAPH

...

By THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

dislodged

"clatter" between

the coronation. He is coming preparations long enough to If my father had been at all this injunction; that her boys.of again tomorrow. I dined up show me in the Loadon Times nervous beforehand he was now acknowledgment became lower stairs as Papa and Mama had on an Admiralty Order rating me wholly in control of his emotions, and lower until one particularly enormous banquet of over five a Midshipmann in His Majesty's His voice was strong and clear. profound obeisance hundred people.

Fleet," and to hand mo the dirk My father, although her coronet from her head. June-21, 1911. ̈ ̈ ̈

that goes with the rank. This religious man, had not too much It fell with # .After

breakfast I saw special promotion was no doubt patience with lengthy church our feet. Delighted at this break Lord Revelstoke about the intended to assuage my disap- services, Wherever he worshipped in the suspense which had heid Coronation arrangements, "At pointment", over missing the on Sundays the preacher was us all since early morning we 11.00 I went alone with Mider cruise with my ferm. Despite notified that his sermon must be four brothers all dived down to to the Abbey to have one last this brief interludo It was plain brief But my father was a rescue It The look before the fateful day, to- to me that my father was not invincible morrow. I think I have now entirely himself; his quarterdeck however much his simple spirit discomflture and our collective traditionalist and rounding us laughed at her gathered most things. There manner was more in evidence ence were a few of the foreign re- than usual. With the feeling of may have been oppressed by all gallantry.

ding him the the Intions at lunch. In the after- perhaps belag in

pomp surrounding the way fact that this was the way Bri- noon I Papa to the Horse Show at comfort in the knowledge that Olympia....After tea I

went with Mama and backed out, drawing some secret ta monarchs had for

He also

centuries

for

went somebody else was nervous too, bown crowned was ́endigh through the service with Mider

with miner myselves in awe stapivier Abbey capacity for detaching himself

was inspiring to find

and he explained

tomorrow,

of

crowds' sur-

THOSE BOXES ATER that afternoon 1-found

that room.

father in his sitting There was still a huge concourse of people at the

to me. I dined with Mama and under the new circumstances from his immediato · surround❤ Papa.. Bertie also tired. Papa attaching to my exalted position inge. I am sure that on gave me some valuable himris for as Prince of Wales. This time, moments when he was oblivious gates but he had taken off his

solemn occasion there Instead of watching the proceed-

the mechanics Ings from the Princesses box. I. of

the coronation clothes. Dressed in a sat in front of the peers, in the pageantry revolving around him comfortable business suit he was same chair that had been oe, and was conscious only of the at his desk, piled high with red cupied by my father nine years simple and indeed sacred fact dispatch boxes, and was hard before. Archbishop Temple had that he was dedicating himself at work on state papers. died and in his place was to the service of the people. Dr Randall Davidson who hati.

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the Protestant tal

faith. The old THE HOMAGE

Only Uncle

robes of sco

by a

Lord

There

That mental picture of my

at his desk with official "boxes" has

father

med to

me a

of kingship

those

always much more

authentic representation of the than all tho

around the streets of London, and other died, they were retumust provided a sombre background as another would be expensive my lot for the previous four Emine and gold, listening blare of trumpets, and from the intimate sense I saw my father

his

ensure

legislation.

To

interesis and his Initiato

Europe and is personages led him An

to extract from

the American phrase, the Upper

the

-

of

THE OATH

When

to

cope

knew my moment had copee, 20 HW 2011

their contents; Cabinet minutes,

was all

all the more difficult for governmental reports,

foreign ine because what I had to do and colonial office dispatches. now involved my father, Wero

for commissions and warrants to blunder or behave.clumsily signature not to mention he would have felt that I had peals, petitions and evenin SHALL never forget the sight tailed him. On the day of the caromation,

He was generous dividual protests from all parts of my father as

Inalt

did it so well deal with them for a there "Dear David

short before bare-hended and alone and with but

my win

while myself. When must confess that in

I visited my

Yfather, like his father be Whereas Victoria had remained

fore him, set great store by withdrawn, knust mysterious figure, seldom seen in London,

the meticulous conduct of cere-confirmed me the year before in monial detail. He questioned proferring Instead the sclusion

of me closely to make sure I knew

Duke

Cambridge

had of Windsor Castle, of Osborne in

died meanwhile. exactly what I had to do in Arthur remained to sit beside BSORBED in the drama i siste occasions with which the the Isle of Wight and of Balmoral

Westminster Abbey. My answers us. And instead In the Highlands of Scotland,

seemed to satisfy him and he ledgeable Hansell and the faith- ancient ritual went on.

of the know. A forgot my own tension. The public is more familiar. and rarely venturing beyond the

ended the talk with a reminder ful Finch to hover watchfully in was the anointing of the King Queens wherever they may go. I confines of her royal estates, my

These boxes pursue Kings or ponderantly Conservative re-

that my deportment should con- the background, I was grandfather * widertook to Srlag jected the "people's budget" out

form to the solemnity of the attended

now with consecrated oll; the touch- remember them na inseparable the monarch, back into public of ham as being revolutionuy

occasion.

page

ing of his heels with the golden features of a small child's fleet- view. He reopened Buckingham in nature. That action at once

Ashley, to my robe, and spurs; the girding on of the ing Impressions 'of Queen Palaco, oru a ezand scale for state brought the Lords (Lad the

While at

br my grandfather's

peer and social entertainimeni.

Revelstoke, to sword of state; the placing In Victoria; there were always two He Commons into violent collision.

his hands of the two sceptres, or modo a point of opening Parlia

coronation I had been bewilder Carry my coronet. Herbert

of them on a threo The Liberals, under Mr

table be that ment in person at the beginning 11. Asquith, decided to

ed and Agely, I was to carry the

gorgeous, glittering and finally the actual crowning side the chair where she worked now assemblage, watching the stately itself. thoroughly scared. I had only measures of the preintes and the for all the peers

That was the algnal in the garden, whether at Wind- of each new session, a practice Issue to the country. in it that Victoria ad allowed to general election in January 1910,

just been pulled out of the ob-

to put on sor, Osborne or Balmoral. Later lapse. He was often seen driving a few months before

scurity and regimented ways of cat Officers of State in their their coronels. From all came on I used to seo

A

them in my my grand-

scarlet trimmed with the a naval college which had been

сту in unison "God grandfather's sitting room as to save the King." There who a frequent appearances at to power. Asquith now moved to ur bis coronation.

Sandringham. Then in

in a more and very hard to get. Newmarket, Epsom, Ascot, Don- erase the opposition of the Lords

years. To

of trumpets, the be thrust forward the fanfares caster and tho other im- by introducing the

In December 1010

of

my Tuesday, April 11, 1010.

After lunch, the jeweller ***enly as one of the principal-rich tones of the organ and the Tower came the boom of cannon tumm so-chiled

with them and portant race

voices of the choir, I became Aring a sixty-two gun salute, family had moved into Bucking- meetings

actors in the coronation of n

rare. indoed was the occasion always signals for a popular have abolished the veto power of cadet at

were "Parliament Bill," which would ham Palace, I was still a naval from Garrard came to try on the king was in itself hard

enough; aware as never before of the

the Archbishop had that I went to his room demonstration. In this sense King the hereditary

Dartmouth, In the diamond Garter that Uncle but the

I true majesty and solemnity of rendered homage to the King I realisation that houses

Anding him poring over Edward made the monarch more money bills and other popular have passed the final Dartmouth large and he will have to alter first time, that my every move-

It is far too would be on public trial for the kingship. over normal course of events I should George left me. zocoribio.

the

ment would be critically scruti- My grandfather's cosmopolitan passage of thus he proposed feminations in the spring and the whole thing.....

bull

left on a six months'

4

nised by my elders, filled me to Tuesday, June 8 cruise to and the West 1. dined nione with Mama with an apprehension bordering acquaintance with continental promise to pack," in North America

Indies with my

at 8.30 and she told me a Jat almost on terror. so tajce more than a sovereign's House by creating enough Lib- that I was old enough she told me that, Papa had June 22, Finch had me and my to the, altar and advanced tough to record in his diary of the British realm I had to

ferm-mates, at gen per However, my fatlier decided useful and interesting things... play. normal interest in diplomacy, cras red at one stroke-to his coronation; I was forced to should carry my coronet at the three brothers up long

peers-even Os many

my part as Prince of Wales at arranged that Lord Revelstoke Victoria's-com- five While Queen' pathies: had. been distinctly swamp the Conservatives. Gormnophila, partly out

nor the memory of her placed in an extremely difficult service in the Royal Navy. This the Duchy of Cornwall Council" at that early hour some of the to the coronation oath. That of mo I was scarcely conscious-only last year my niece Lilibet sty grandfather was hi urge forgo the eruize and break my Coronation, He is a member of our usual waking time, Even his band on the Bible to swear anxiety 10 xum bis expectations brother Bertie after the war and

50,000 troops detalled to Eine beloved husband Albert the quandary.

was the first serious disappoint Wednesday, Constitutionally he

14, 1011, the streets were beginning to

is a compact; between the of my movements,

after she had become Queen, I Frogmore House, Windsor.

take up their poslions around Prince Consort, King Edward's could not oppose his Prime ment of my life.

his people, sovereign and

the Eventually the coronation ser- had opportunities to observe I went later to the Castic Buckingham Palace. From our and now rising seventeen to seo Papa and Biwna, who are windows on the third floor look- Gove

language is

intensely cloquent vice came to an end. lay chore with the French and not Minister without appearing to

We had how with the growth of burBRL- mordly, becalise of his love of flout the will of the people; at and better able to understand both very busy now. I heard ing down the Mall Mary and I

moving. TO awore to been in the Abbey almost four, eracy their number bad in- 'Govern the Parlu.

the same time he recognised that the significance of the Corona-

people of this hours it had seemed a lifetime, created. a creation of peere on a muss tion ceremony. Twelve days be that the Grand Duke Michael is watched all this activity unti United Kingdom of Great Then came the long procession

unable to attend the Coronation we Production scale would debase fore at Windsor I had been

to Buckingham Palace summoned by the Britain and Ireland And the age and make a mockery the Garter, one of

thereto of owing to slight indisposition, harassed Finch for braaidact. Dominions invested with the

belonging, Get This complicates matters.

following my parents in the gold

TO BE CONTINUED peerage

the to the oldest of the

statuses

NEXT SATURDAY "tri coach wearing their crownS, Elite House of Lord. Be was

ponderlag.... this dilemuna orde

orders of chivalry. My father Juno 17, 1911. Buckingham morning call on our parents to

the Mary, my three brothers and I Laws and customs of all rode and the surrounded by roads the same to cause lav and landma

together "in, aTM" "state" (Copyright 1953. World Copyright I might grandfather's suspicions of Buckingham at conferred this honour upon me alannished packing up at and valets fyssing over the Inst

be suitably

bly Frogmore

inluding all rights under Pan ogmore and at 10.00 drove up

justice, in

We had been instructed to be American Copyright Convention Germany were coloured by Luc, which by now had in- attired at his coronation, Being personal-prejudice. His wife, flamed public passions, became still a minor and not entitled to to the Castle, where we got into tion clothes.

returning the reserved. Reproduction in part.. hold the Protestant faith and the greetings of the Queen Alexandra, had been my father's to resolve,'

take my seat in the House of a carriage with Mama and Papa.

throngs or in full in half languages štrictly Lords, I could not yet wear and drove down to the station. Preocuplet as he was, my Established Church of England which lined the streets. So prohibited. By arrangement. with Against his better instincts and peer's robes. However on my We arrived in London at 11.10. father nonetheless put aside his of which he was the Defender. literally did my sister carry out the London Sunday Express)

drove as many authorities contend becoming Knight of the Garter

Buckingham BAA against strict constitutional I could now wear the blue robo Palace with an escort....In the practice my father was per- of the Order,

evening I drove to the Bath sunded to give a secret pledge

Club with Mider (Mr Hansell) that in the event of the Liberal

George and had swim. were delayed by an immense Government's being returned in duled for December of that same

procession of suffragettes who another general election sche

were marching up Plendilly, year, he would do as Asquith. THE last days before the cord. Then I arranged a lot of corona- Oh! how the fools annoy mett wished. The

Liberals

nation were unusually crowd- tion circulars, and dined as won again by a narrow

margin. The

was hud spent the Ascot race week

SUSPICIONS

certain

of

the

extent my when deall

I was

and this so that

MY DIARY

... I

and

and

June

"London.

born a Danish Princess She nover dorgave what the used to call "Bistarcic & Co." for robbing her father, Christian IX, of the Danish duchles of Schleswig- Holstein and Lanenburg and dis- possessing her brother-in-law, the Duke of Cumberland, of leingdon of Hanover that foute have fallen to him. But my grandfather's antipathy toward Germany was also influenced practical considera- by more tions; the "Labre reling" of Prussia threatening the peace introduced into Parliament - ed. My parents and their guests usual at 0.30° of Europe, caused him to look in blocked by the Lords. at Windsor Castle. My sister June 10, 1911,

ncpliew

The controversy

ţ

rosred

MISGIVINGS

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arrive.

to

with increasing disfavour upon through the rest of that winter fourteen-my brother

Uncle Christian, the on Mary who was then around the struttings of his

cor Crown Prince of Denmark, also Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Franco with only a brief pause for a tator and governess to Frogmore

and into the spring and summer, and

dined as he is one of the first had been sent with British "Entente Cordiale"

coronation representatives to 1004 which ended Britain's long political true to quiet the air nearby. My diary entries for that isolation from continental en- during my father's coronation,

period reflect something of the June 10, 1010. tanglements, came about in no

atmosphere of

At 1.15 there was a most of preparation rmall, degree by reason of his

the

alarming family lunch with all great event drew near,

foreign personal prestige and influence.

Tuesday, April 4, 1011, Bucking- staying in the house. The Crown representatives ham Palace, London. Yet even us King Edward

At dinner

Prince of Germany was there në Paga gave me well as Grannic, Aunt Minnie moulded the monarchy J THE violent injection of the much information for the sum-

many-sided personality, there was much at

at combined with his own misgiv- things what I should wear at

throne into party politics mer, telling me amongst other Dowager Empress of Russia) and Aunt Toria. Then home to worry and perplex hum. Ings over the pledge he had so the Coronation. The fortunes of the Conservative reluctantly given weighed heavi- Friday,

April Party which had been in slow ly

father. on my

Ho was decline were finally shattered in

A man came to try on robe at the coronation. At 4.30 often to refer to it later as the Garter dress and robes that I went to the Abbey, and there

of the most of the Liberals, that brought to experiences

distressing Papa has given me. There are I was told what I had to do by of his entire life. going to be made some altera- the Earl Marshal. The whole power brillant and audacious. In the end, however, the House Hans, as it does not at well in place is most politicians.

of Lords capitulated; the need parts.

beautifully Among them was a young of my father's redeeming his dress, and will look very well June 20, 1911.

I think it is a beautiful arranged. Welah lawyer, David Lloy pledge disappeared. But mean when ready. It is so lucky that George, who caller and shocked while the constitutional crisis Papa can let me have his dreas, about some arrangements for

.I saw Lord

Diction of

1006 by tho spectacular victory

спо

in the afternoon I saw Lord

Shaftesbury and Ashley,

7, 1011!

son, who is going to carry my

Revolsloke

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