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The Palace brings its ideas up to data for the boy who will one day be King-

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NOW HE IS

SEVEN

By Robert Glenton

TOW that Prince Charles He prefers painting and draw-

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is seven, his future ng And if he likes a visitor

very much he will say: "I' training as Heir to make you a special picture,"

the Throne becomes more That, is his accolado. and more important.

The Queen, like any other Does his life run parallel to fond mother, admires his skill. the children outside the Palace But in reality Charles is a bit railings whom he will one day of a scrawfor

rulo7 Or is he leading that The Queen is just us proud of ivory tower existence that has Charles's love of music. always been the fashion Buckingham Palace?

14

The Palice has made its deel--

She is helping him with his

first plano lessons,

Yet what is the truth? Is the alon. The ivory tower has gone young Prince really artistic? for good.

Prison Charles will Any parent with a seven-year- enjoy an unfettered childhood old son will recognise his tartes. with freedom of expression and

is passionately food of

a right to a will of his own, Scottish reels, military bands, One day the lousle-haired boy and loud dance musle played on in the Palace grounds will be his nursery gramophone, King. One day the blue-eyed

Lad from the bomb-site will" Do

his subject.

But now they both get the joy

His name never appears in the credit lines, but he is rental autority.

THE POWER IN BRITISH

P

OWER in British red Alms wears T carnation and sits behind a wide desk, eleared of papers and with no telephone in sight.

in

in

Power in British Alms is the hands of John Davis, a mean whose name never appears the credit titles of any Aim anywhere.

the

FILMS

By David Lewin

stars

were

cut

the first job was getting the machine to run properly with the right people at the top."

Docs power frighten John Davis? "Power is rest

responsibili- ty. I'm not frightened of res ponsibility--I'm too keen on

can be horrified at the scale of

take over.

It was like an army in retreat. I started to work." The year was 1948. He was 42. In dry business terms John Davis says: "It was an exacting period of refinancing." He used his power drama- has Omcially Mr Davis

tically. Studios were closed. job, of course

course, sometimes you tile Managing Director of the

Salaries of J. Arthur Rank Organisation.

("And mine loo," Mr Davis the decisicos you have to make. has the world-wide

slight disagreements of But you have to stand back. If name. Mr. Davis is the force.

some of his execu- you became too terrified you'd training. Won His

on Holley with

lives. He wanted them to take i:ave to quit." undoubted accountant. He is an

they wanted to stay. It was Mr Davis's view that carried the day.

Whole sections of the Rank

closed. Organisation

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expert at reading complicated balance sheets and unravelling the profit and loss figures,

But today Mr Davis deckies which flims will be made the studios; he controls the im- mediate careers of stars such as Jack Hawkins, Kay Kendall, A dozen Anthony Steel, end other whose contracts are held by his companies.

He is even concerned

with

the way they dress and behave in public.

It's fun

were

WI

cut out our cosmetics firm; our weather forecasting office; our had to be poster Orm. drastic."

Enemies

His Pride

Bagpipes

are his pride and The Queen's pipers at

same kind of scolding if they Balmoral presonted him with a are maid-stained or late for tea, miniature set some time ago. And they both show the same He makes a great many unholy childish anarchy In the face of noises with them

Precocious sayings of the Prince Charles runs about as young are part of the pattern,

the tumbles

self-confident he pienses. He

into but

young is setting an example royal youngsters. In the Palace they remember

the dining-room with Princess Prince Anne and jobs his parents for equalled by few

informal meals.

There are no sedate walks for when he said to Haile Selassic: Charles and Anne. They are know about you. You come from the land where the lione In the open air as much possible.

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They have pots to live."

They remember when at tho ago of five Charles asked Sir Winston Churchill at a cocktali

Commonwealth:

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romp with.

Play Hour

of

There is the evening ploy hour party just before the royal tour

the when the Queen and the Duke of take the children upstairs, bath you think I them as they scream and splash sausage,

Minister duced one on camturber

The pla

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have a

and pro- stick. And they occasion when

couldn't do the two jobs per-about-and finally tuck them up

Davis con- in bed. fectly." So Mrs centrates on being Mrs Davis,

19 What

the Duke At week-ends, they leave Edinburgh's attitude as a parent? Princess Anne insisted on eling-

boy #

ing to his company. Duke of

trial sometimes," muttered

Ludon for their 250-acre farm

As

the

in Kent, Mr Davis, they say, is | Edinburgh was poor, by royal a

Es ruthlessly efficient on the standards. He went through the young Prince Charles. farm as he is in films.

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Now ho hos reduced company's overdraft £12,000,000 in six years, and announced this year a trading profit of £8,727,000, he is turn

figures ing his attention from to film stars.

"Girls are

Favourite Toy

ordinary public school life. The King-to-be is already on And he wants the same for the fringes of the formal lite of by Charles. He would like his on the Palace. He has been intro- parties and to be as rough and tough as all duced at evening

given glasses of prangcade to the other children of his age,

He snatches moments to teach drink. He meets a few chosen. the Heir to the Throne football guests. and cricket,

But he is not having things His latest orders; they musi

But in the daytime, bo is still... be properly dressed and tumed all his own way. ----

teals today that

a determined seven-year-old The Queen out on official occasions. There

them at he and she alone, must have And he is spanked and sent fo is a gymnasium for

is the most say about her children, bed early if he is naughty. Pinewood Studios,

On the Queen's instructions,

day of the week while choosing stories for filming-"]

the Hoynd Standard Alles over. have read a lot of books" He the Heir to the Throne is called

Palaco Buckingham

Princo spends two days a week-12 "Charles" by the Palace staff.

Nobody pays him homage at all. Charles will be found puffing hours a day-at the studios.

I have the right tona now. His childish tantrums get no and blowing his way akong the on his favourite. foy attention than they corridors THE feeling of John Davis'a One man's job can be covered mo

his tricycle. He seems very power

drive in by another no one is indipendentes has a personal attan- typical of his age and generation.. and his using it extends downwards sable. Now I can take decisions

But for all that, he is not al through his organisation of by looking at the facts and say- 33,000 people.

ing 'Yes' or 'No,"

He is learning even at seven That is power,

years

of

Rockets

"If I pass one of my cinemas and I see light is out when it should be on, I want to know and why. Not long ago I'd want a my desk from the freezing. His memos to his report on

Now I can safely

TR Davis can be curt

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manager.

Privilege

He

staff had a wintry bite about leave that to one of my exécu- 6 haven't taken anyone

them AL

Rank headquarters Ïvel in South Street they still tell

Davis is responsible for

an

a

dant,

man,

Any

He is the Queen's foot- Richard

Brown. The typical child.

| sovent-year-old Prince calls him

Me Brown and hos ↑ healthy respect for him. Charles and Anne

age that there is some- thing different about his life. He sold quite recently:

Very

call their

Hot

queens

becomes

parents "Mummy" and "Papa" "Other little boys mummys are

But underlying this is the Now that he

as

Palace formality which will not be denied.

Nine A.M. Call

seven his

urgent

a model. I haven't tried to

on опуст "At a premiere of one of my pattern myself

A great deal has been talked the story of Davis iurning on alma, if there is something special. I'm not a VIP-Just

When Charles and Anne pay of his going away to behóol. M650 Cinemas in the United

executive who wore

Very Ordinary their 9 am. visit after breakfast. It la more likely that a youthful Kingdom and scores of Rank brightly coloured striped out wrong-there is a rocket. Fast. V.O.Pa

Baying sorry is no excuse. The Person."

to their parents, Charles always male tutor will be engaged for "I sco

When I left Mr Davis

although It bows when he sees his mother. hlm,

L Theatres in the Commonwealth, at morning conference.

aim is perfection."

just possible Charles, might Не ls in a

talk position to

vou are still in your pyjamas,

few spend a "The say you have mellowed took one last look at this desk; Anne always cintales. Then they that

"Exxcuse me," I said, "but

terms at Eton when he is older. harshly to Hollywood and is Mr So-and-So."

since your marriage," I said. not scared to do so.

But the where do you keep your tele-

But what about Prince Charles Mr

considered

Just now the Heir to the at work himself Davis, with his wife- He starts

"People have said that phone?"

a small boy an a himself? What about the boy Throne is the morning, and a point. former actress Dinah Sheri- 7.30 in

Davis beckoned me behind behind the file? What is ha tricycle, with a grin for Cabinet "I don't

a cupke today?

Ministers, a bow for his mother, the desk and opepod who gave up her career special messenger brings round to my face," he said. "I when she married him

the letters from the post office know about the word mellow board which is in place of the

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then in

accountancy

1938 went for a job

with Odeon Theatres.

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