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NAME
ADDRESS
LANDLORD
So Many Lives
N November 1949, three Arab terrorists called on Colonel W. F. Stirling at his house in Damascus and, once they were alone with him in his study, fired six pistol shots, hitting him in the right lung, the liver and the right forearm. Only A brilliant and immediate operation saved his life.
BY PETER LOVEGROVE
Rumonia
evacuated
THE ROYAL MARRIAGE MUDDLE
by CHARLES WINTOUR
HE Royal Marriage Lords did not approve the mea- Act requires the con- sure until eight tlays after the Bent, of the Queen to marriage. the marriage of the Prin-
It is not a whose origin and purpose is
CC88.
measure
Would he therefore,, count. Es # "foreign family”?
Debrett's Peerage of 1942
contractos
widely known. Passed in suggests that he does not. And the reign of George III, it as this Ballenberg died of fever British was forced through Farlin- Ashanti expedition, for which ment in a fit of temper by he had volunteered, I would the King.
recommend the Privy Council to give him the beneft of the doubl.
His Hanoverian sense of caste had been outraged by the mar- younger brothers riage of tsar to commoners, and he was do termined, so far as he could, to keep royal marriages as an in strument of royal foreign polley.
He did not succeed in his alm. But the Act is still la force.
Its provisions are three-d
1. No descendant of George I (other than issue of Prin- cesses who marry into foreign families) shall be "capable of contracting matrimony without
Certainly the Royal Family have acted as It Lady Iris was covered by the Act. When she married Captain O'Malley the Irish Guards in 1941, do anulouncement of royal "sanction ' anti approval" was made.
of
Her marriage was later dis- solved. There Was Do SUE- gestion of royal approval for the dissolution.
-
Three days
ADY Irls now lives in New York, where she bag had a
the previous consent of the varicly of jobs. She has been Queen,
reported a mistress of cere- monies on television; promoting
2. Any descendant of GeorEC cales for a dance studio; selling
I over 25 may marry without the consent of the Queen by giving notice to the Privy Coun-
tresses, representing Indian textiles; endorsing chowing
ell of his or her intention to gum; and working as
BO
He hualed in Ire-soner in Palestine while he was Albanian plot. It was reported legislate about marriage as
was also
a secre.
.
of the
Lary, marry, unless both Houses of Parliament disapprove.
But I must warn my Amert- can friends. It Lady Iris over 3. Anyone who knowingly wishes to marry again and in- solemnines, nostris, or is presers vites them to the wedding, they
marriage covered by the would be
And table-turning in a Westphalian at a
wise to
out. castle, and a detailed account of Act without such consent being whether royal sanction has been commits a crime given. Otherwise mere attend- events in Syrin in May. 1845, obtained
French when the.
shelled, punishable, under an obsolete ance at the wedding might serious crime by son's Fast End; surveyed trads suggesting that the protectorate bombed and machine-gunned Act of Richard 11'e day, with constituto a
for be abolished and Egypt Invited Damascus for three days and confiscation of estates,
English law. conditions" Yorkshire wool merchants, and to become an honorary member nights before being
The two who are "out" aro by the British Command.
Earl -Mountbatten ant the Ins and outs hecked up on vice in the West of the British Commonwealth. End for Scotland Yard,
Haven. Marquis of Milford od- Another memorandum,
One of my favourites among There has been Stirling the dressed to the High Commis-, the anecdotes concerns
Both come from foreign descent sportsman,
course it is as dificult to on the male side. Ind; shot golden beaver in serving there towards the end to Stirling that a rich land-
An approved account Canada, elephants in Mongalls, of 1922, pointed out that unless owner who
a tribal is to make laws about love: Mountbatten family was pub plover and sandyrquse on the the British Government came chief and a senator had seduced The Hanoverians were a pro tished recently. A few days after the Euphrates, roebuck and
While full lox out into the open and declared the wife of his agent. The dynasty. George II bad eight attempted assassination, an in Westphalla with Franz von what they really did mean by latter, in revenge, revenied that children, his son Frederick had chapter is given to Earl Mount ordinary Arab was over Papen, and all manner of game the Balfour Declaration, there the senator was in
pay of nine children; George III, his batter, bolh Lady Iris and the sadly neglected, be
who had heard talking to a friend in an Albania; played polo in Malta, would
argrandson, had no less than 15, Marquis are Geziro, 19Hartum and on a small cafe in the bazaars Addio Band of Brier; railed Jews-a
It is a duller, book in con- a certain day and Queen Victoria had nine, the Arabs and the ranged that on
memorandum
*sequence. and which Zog should be murdered of the city. "Did they think,"
So the ramifications of was so unpopular that plans the capital scized by the tribe,
tho
Another intriguing, by-product he said, speaking of the
were immediately considered as preparatory to an invasion and Royal Marringe Act, if pursued would-be murderers, "that
to the best way to get rid of me subsequent occupation by the with determination through the of the operation of the Act is Her Highness pages of Burke and Debrett; the postilen of without creating too much of Jugoslav troops.
Maric Louise. Her a stir.".
spread far and wide throughout, Princess the world.
mother, one of Queen Victoria's
martiod daughters,
Prince But some of the stranges Christian or Schleswig-Holstein
days consequences of the Act spring three
after he was from the limitation it places on naturalised. Thus Princess Marie clearly within the scope of the Act.
the between
oft. Alexandria and golfed in a hundred placer.
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Anyone reading the fascinat
the
trouble the Jugoslavs,
Colonel Surling is a staunch ing autobiography of this re HERE has also been friend of the Arabs. He believes markably intrepid and energetic "cloak-and-dagger" Stirling, emphatically that it was
not
the
Exceptional
,
Brlion, Safety Last," which has who tried to organise an exvereign stalo into the heart were found correct. Jugoslay Princesses who marry foreign- Louise was brought
Lawrence
ת!
1V0
writes
*
Repeal it
right to injecta foreign WE facts were verified and just been published, will be in pedition to overthrow the clined to agree with that une. Liberian Government, travelled of a group of Arab countries, troop movements began to take named
unknown Arab, Few about the Balkans with "impet" or was it right to displace an place. Zer did not want to as- men have lived co many lives
As a result,people of foreign mines
his luggage and a existing population against ita cuse the Jugoslavs of plotting descent who stand in BomLe ́as Stirling- has-none-has-been-mall armpit holster which was will in order to make room for against his life, and bring the relation to the Royal Family involved in more precarious and almost undetectable under a migrants from abroad, but there affair into the open,
are occasionally "in" but much varied adventure; and only double-breasted sult" and was no objection to doing
with
royal remained hus
a revolution in Albania a planned
to do, which was to out to
SHE married "We found,
Col. more often "out"
assent; but her marriage greater legend in the Middle in 1940 which was designed to create a cultural and religious Stirling, "that our only solution
King Peter of Yugoslavia, for
perhaps with East.
paralyse Italian communications base or home for the Jews was to arrange for the agent to example, who is now reported was dissolved, There has been Stirling the and enable the Greeks to wind scattered throughout the world. shoot the senator and then pro- to be suing Queen Alexandra royal approval. The princes resumed her maiden name the soldier. He marched into Lady- up successfully their magnificent In this all Arabs will
vide him with a safe conduct for divorce, is "out." agree
following year, smith with the let Battalion campaign.
with me, for it was they, It out of the country on a falso Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the
He did not have to seck royal The Liberian expedition was should be remembered, who pasport: The agent duly
Marriage and Was
Surely this Royal consent for his marriage, at- head of the relieving foret. He still-born owing to lack of during the past thousand years ried out the sentence
# great-great- Act should be repealed. It is an won the Distinguished Service
vice (unde; the Albanian "coup" protected the Jews, while the smuggled over the border into though he is
Victoria. ancient survival from long, long grandson of Queen Order leading a mounted in- never' materialised because Christians in Europe were op Greece, There was a great stir
the senator was given fantry company of the Man British officialdom in Athens pressing them."
His mother and grandmother ago. It imposes discrimination state
all, the funeral, with in the South African frowned on it. Had the latter
married into forcim favouring selons of foreign born military out and a couple of families...
familles. For they are free to veldt. He was a bimbashi in heen permitted, Colonel Stirling
bands. I received a printed
the the Egyptian Army at Khartum belleves "It might have affected
invitation but did not attend." White Nile. He the whole course of the war, and on the crashed in the Jordan Valley and the disaster of Crete 'might while serving as an observer
erver have been averted"
chestra
This was not the first time he
Hectic Years
URING all those
and
both
marry whom they choose; native born are not.
In the case of the Mount- batters one is probably Rudyard Kipling once said to but two are definitely" "out." Such privilegos for, foreigners
Surling's wife: "I The person probably "in" Is are certainly allon to Britain Deol, Stirling met a number of colours Singave me your Indy Iris Mountbatten. She is coalitions have changed, and in the Royal Flying Corps, andi got burled by a shell at Galli-
had an audacious idea the world's leading figures, and husband; he's made me live in a great-granddaughter of Queen people are no longer taking the poll. He won the Military Cross had
same view. of marriage. turned down, and he has some "Safety Last" contains a vivid in Palestine after the famous
pliment Third Battle of Gaza, and a very forthright views on the collection of brief pen portraits the open air again.". This com Victoria.
of our timorousness
and most readers leadership of Lawrence, Feisal, King Zog, intent to and
Her grandmother/ the The terms of the Act find Staff Chief 03
Omeer second DSO
wars, and Allenby, Weitzmann, and Lloyd with discover in it the same youngest daughter of Queen no support among the people, to T. E. Lawrence for his part in between the world particularly
the George, a wealth of fascluating raro on
quality which inspired Victoria, married a Battenberg, and no justification Arab Revolt against the more
from In Cairo, in anecdote,
0 elaborate Kipling's tribute Turks, And in World War II Foreign Office.
the
on
he was Military Commissioner 1919, he "wrote a memorandum Albanian mountain wedding to ceptional man. for Northern Syria and com- mander of the British Military Headquarters in Eastern Syria.
In Albania
THERE has been Burling the administrator. He was Gover-
hor of Sinai before C, S. Jarvis;
keynote to
森 CX-
He was naturalised by Act of Parliament, but the House..of
Sitting on the Fence
40 a holidaymaker in
a bowler hat sitting opposite The Sea Nest
a political officer in Cairo: on the hottest day of the
carly Governor of Jaffa In the
days of Britain's Palestina Bummer..
mandate, a district comprising all Southern Palestine round Beersheba and Gaza and the coastal plain to within five miles of Halfa, when he created the and municipality of Tel-Aviv
wide-scale plan of evolved a re-afforestation...He spent eight Albania, roorganised years. In the Ministry of the Interior, set up a new gendarmerie, holp- ed to write the country's co- stitution with the aid of Whitaicer's Almanack and turn Ahmed Bey Zogu King Zo
י
of the Albanians,
There has been the "private enterprise" Siring. He ran
and fruit farm in British ranch and Columbia. He worked for an
oll
of Ger!». Ha! was secretary Sporting Club, He exported women dresses to South Africa; was technical adviser for noveral: Körda nim verduring a backing an neskatuvch porter, and then flotrwale:ab Maricrond,Epanetta; {m, Lon- |
he sat
While the sun beat down on
his bowler hat
And the girls in. the swim- yet. How can I find one with-
aults aqueal and shout out making myself cheap?" He sat on the seat in his desperate, girl writing to en
bowler hat
editor. While the seaquils laughed "Ich-heh" like that.
so far.
There on the seat by the resille old man in a bowler
Why, oh why, dre you
drcised ke that? While the run beats down,
beats down, beats down On
hat
On the white wing collar
While the sun beat down,
beat down, beat down "On the curly brim and the
dusty crown
While the golden children
with golden limb. 5 And „golden hair, laughed, up
-While the seagulls circled
around lite hat
And laughed "Heheheh, Hch-
heh" Uke, that,
Drened in a pin-striped suit
was he
While ships, "sälled by on
green-gold sea,
Well, dear, as this editor is probably busy with other matters, fet me help you.
In
principle,
Let's scrap it.
By Nathaniel Gubbins
贔屓が was unable to recognise those course, that, your eyes are blue
shinin who were sacrificing themselves and the min lạ for his comfort.
at
and
When thỏ Tight young man But as the young men of approachest let the chain tall today have little use for sweet, from your tiny weak hands. At one time a modest girl, unselfish girls with rheumatic Then the doggie; will leap anxious for a seaside friend- us and half-mad uncles I the young man, put its great
think a girl's best friend is a paws on his, shoulders
smother, his data, with loving ship, would, tale an elderly aunt doggle. the pin-striped suit that around, holding her arm, Okk-
- After toas made for.town;
If you don't own HoggleA this offer three things
There will happen you must borrow one. ing about her rheumatism and shouting You poor darling" in are plenty of lost, doggies at
Man is a dog- On the dusty crown of your a piercing voice in the hope seaside police stations in
bowler hat While the alipa Her world go sailing by Why are you dressed that, on why74
Z and neat cravat,“
فرن
that eligible young men would the overhear the remark and think.........
munner.
· If the we'd piave to be to
the lover (and tough this
you may begin
And if I were you. I would weddhin Fill end in
a friendship
"There's a sweet, unselfish girl like looking after her old aunt when choose a large, doggie, half as It the young mho is not
In your pinstriped suit and
your bowler hat?
No wonder the seagulls laugh
like thats
she might be enjoying herself. I big as a house, day they are dog-lover I'm afraid, you've had must make her acquaintance.*** usually more friendly, than little It dear. But DINHA KHUMALAN
Other girls would borrow an Yapping doggies.
mia
, much, because, you know,
and
While ships called by, salted Girl's best friend being kidnapped. When the front half laughing, half of you
TO
by salled by
„the Argentine
·Uruguay d
Widle, the boats came - in
old man in an invalid chair. You must then buy a chain only nasty men don't, Ilka duga. If the dog ispek-e man-lover and push him along the front and allow this big doggle to biles the young man's car.
you along off you will and despite his protests that he was drug helpless little
jná polica young man ofered to help, tightened, so the wind blow But hurry, Lac old mars Frigated for the the curls back from, your low, dough. What h WEEK of my fortnight's police, "sho" would "explain that) wide," rethes clover, bro Sa better than impo holda, by the son to over for trend unele was finering the
Joyourself. for, di
and the boats went out and I haven't met a boy friend from a nervous breakdown.: dudl
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