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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1956.

Why Did Queen Victoria

Dislike Her Son So Much?

our

By ROBERT BLAKE

OMEHOW I have never a throno than the wrong mis- matter which, In Queen Vic- Moreover, in those days toria's words, "broke my Angel's been able to regard tress.

fact

0 youthful Edward Vil as one of the monarchy hnd not become heart"

semi-dolfled as it is now. excapade with a woman, attractive more

Before 1914 41 was actually. The Queen firmly believed monarchs, and, despite Miss

possible to be funny-sometimes that worry over this episode Virginia Cowles's efforts on very funny-about royalty, as a hastened, even caused, her be- his behalf in her very glance at Sir Max Beerbohm's loved husband's

donth, and book, cartoons will show. At all most unfairly she never amusing and lively

events. King Edward was a gave her son. Nevertheless st my feelings remain

popular figure, whatever mey may be doubted whether the changed.

have been known or guessed Prince's exclusion from public about his private life.

life involved any great loss the country.

Admittedly he had virtues: for example, he wes What makes him an unattrac- about as unlike Queen Victorm five character seems to me none

he as anyone could be

hark of these things, but rather charm and good mannere

belind ibut

tm-

he sort of lanet emptiness of mind, had an unparalleled knowledge a profound boredom with life, of clothes, medals, and devoid- an absence of real character or tions; he was very lavish over personality

131- and--perhaps an money;

pressive facade. direct corollary <f the latter virtue is worst enetines could not have accused harf anti- Semitism,

bel

I must also concede that some of the reproaches levelledt hum des seem so very today. It may be trys that be น 3 anapable rending

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serious book.

ever WHUNT upon or throne"

Blankness

to

1 greatly enjoyed Miles Cowles's book. As a vivid de- scription of the qunal-regency world of the aristocracy, which survived so long into the Vic- torian era, as a compendium of scandals and causes celebres, t deserves, and will get a wide public.

On the more serious aspects of hidurys at times somewhat "1005 And All reminiscent of That" but this does not matter, As for her verdict on the King, I think she is too charitable,

Charles 1 and George IV may have had deplorable morals, but men of they were elever mean, wh and good taste. King Ed-

mic

4 remark has Britain worth

Intellec fer Rudyard Kipling's terse remembering. intellectual tually, he was far inferior to his description-"a corpulent volup- He certainly mother, ani in matters of taste tuary."

betted heavily ut herges cards, but

#t

ward

<1 The English age

race of Hamblert

"merals"

What then of ins using that word h the English

Indeed,

Thiry

Bever

a total Philisbane, never rising above se opulent vulgarity which will always be associated with his reign,

lens

Perhaps it was this boredom vista were und tankness which caused him impeccabile to fill his days with that end- far from

conventional His unflagging and highly sue- ccaful pursant of pretty women pleasures whose remixis 1x of Charles E George IV.

very descrip-

the

qui sounds so depressing

J Mas Cowles long dull wirk-erde at stately

rightly points out that it

no mere symptom youth

was homes, only varied by dreadful jokes: debest practical

the enormou battues at Sandringham; the gargantuan meals with conver- sation ripetly confined to gossip and trivia: the treadmill routine of the "seas12 Cowes, Scot-

At Over 60

land and the South of France,

only

The Pruner's mode of life can be explained partly, but partly by his mother's deter-

Many

At the age of over 80, es mas he had succeeded in the eller throne, the King, leaving Jus

at home, minatim to exclude him from long-suffering Queen

public aftans

attempts

would repair

le every you Marienbad, allegedly for "The cure," really for the pleasures

alem-.daum of its Pich

vity.

There is no doubt something undignified about the portly and slightly parts-eyed monary set-

ting

off upka amorous assigna- tions in the privacy of the thick woods which surrounated that delectable watering-place.

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were made to reverse her policy and, in particular. Miss Cowies wholly fails to do Justice Gladstone's pertinacious though BOSUCCESS ful efforts 221 that direction.

Fatal Illness

But, Moreover, stre fils to explain

far less puzzlend

for so long posterity: why was VICK ankitega than, Queen Victinin so hostile to ber

de t

after all, an inordinate passion the problem which for the other rx dangerous kay, a passion for penver, mud an any use King Edward's affairs were conducted with discretion and remained unknown to the general public.

maile As

of fact. The bably general pulle would not have mundet all that touch if they had known The Woord wife is a far greater meure la

con" Yet the explanation 114 well known, and in view

pow

topy of of the Cowles's book.

scarcely have

Three key men

in Britain's

economic upset: Mr. Alick Dick (left) boss of

standards ...

Nato

HAVE A GO YOURSELF, MUM

World Cuprah! by abrangement with the Manchester Quaid

Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Chancellor, and Sir Leonard Lord, British

Motors' chief.

IS THIS THE START

T

HE

OF A SLUMP?

London. poople aro puzzle and worried

by the crisis in Coventry and

CISETELION

Miss

been her reason

mingham.

lines

fer excluding it.

Just before his fatal the Prince Consort, who was already in peor health, found at hagten to Cam- prevesay to

Miss bridge, 241 merely, as Cowies

monstrate

By Edward Westropp

I say then that there is no Indeed there need to despair.

is hope that we are about to enter on our finest period since

the war and be as far re- models which will sell abroad 1 war. Bir-

1929 us moved from moon is from the earth.

the

instead of concentrating on "soft" Brish market which has ecused to exist.

Look.

Hives, man

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Lord for example, at the

chair- forceful

Не uf Rolls-Royce, epitomises the new drive to sell

Britisk brains abroad.

them

Diana Dors On Hollywood

THERE is no more startling example of successful career-making than that of Diana Dors, Britain's most publicised film star. Now she is in Holly- wood bidding to repeat that success. For what life is like on Sunset Boulevard read her now in an interview with Christopher Dobson.

know, I

Hollywood Mike and Liz Wilding. They

have all been very kind to us. Waa pre-

Yure to dislike Holly-

wood. I

stories about it being terrible place.

4

I've been

for

going along to the heard so many studios too getting ready

the film. We have been working on clothes and make-up. They cally are professional dut hera

I had the iden they did not take life too Berlously. But

But it's really a very ex- citing and beautiful place. No one but a fool could dis- like it or a failure.

Mind you, it's very tough. You've got to be able to keep your head above wnter and be able to earn enough money to live in the luxury that Holly- wood can offer,

We are living in Marlene Dietrich's old house.

We

are

that's all wrong. They have taught me

some little dodges and gimmicks that are wonder ful.

Hair Creamed

My hair, for instance. They the most delicious creams and shampoos on it. They act like magic. My hair is gorgeous

now.

really very lucky. It is just off Sunset Boulevard, and It's won- But it has not been all one dentul. It is the epitome of way, I have been able to give

I everything have thought

them a few ideas about make- Hoth wood should be-lovely up. furniture, a owkming pool, of

and o view out Hollywood to the Pacific.

course,

Own Cadillac

over

coloured

We have hired t cook too. She's a real character, has her own Caditiae, and guys that Dennis and I can borrow it whenever we like. What do you think of that?

Relaxation is the big problem Пете. We have had so little apare time. When we can wo try to get away to the beach and eat and swim und laze,

It looks as if that is going to be my only relaxation for some I've got film and TV time. offers pouring in.

The studio has already asked me to stay on after this film and start a new one with Rod Steiger in September, I shall We've had 0 tremendous probably do that. Though I time since we have been here,

must say I am already a triflo with Press parties and premieres homeslek.

- the Hollywood

glamour.

to

We met the James Masons loo, I am definitely not going and they have invited us to their make my permanent home here, We house to play tennik with them. although it is so tempting.

love England.

They are so nice. I had never met them before. But then we The ideal thing would be to are already getting involved make pictures on both sides. But with the British colony-there's then I suppose I would have to Jean Carson, Glynds Johns, and live in the middle of the ocean,

NATHANIEL CUBBINS, who writes our popular Wednesday humorous column, is on holiday. Watch for his return!

COME TO THE FAIR...

And

W

Bring Your Cheque Book

By David Bamping

you

London git plate from Mary Tudor's OULD

have reign. your treasured

They now take pride of place jewellery melted on their stand in the Grosvenor down to be fashioned Into Hotel which houses the Fair. a memorial to someone you loved?

They watch the sackings

So the workers will get Consider the facts. Three work and Sir Leonard will be from Austin and Standard and the firms of motor ac men are involved in the pre-put his mettle, which is cessories makers with sent situation, and the first exactly what the Chancellor Together with other engincer- he Is promoting | mounting apprehension, And has deliberately created ad plined and exactly what tng firms,

British "know-how in the form remonstrate uppermost in their minds is problems for the other he wants.

of acro-engines to foreign with his about "his dis- the great personal question two.

The third man 19 Mr countries, and where he cannot

• Edward VI and his Cuele, by

of director Dick, managing

he -"Will Virginia Coles Hams picton appointing progress," but to re-

our turn come?

physically export (387 pp. 25x).

a with him about

Harold When will we find ourselves

He foresaw rakes in the dollars on royalty Macmillan, Standard Motors.

the Chancellor's intentions and paymenta for his company's jobless at week or a Chancellor of the Ex- made no bones about it. He designs to such a tune that it is month's notice?"

chequer, İN the Minister realised several months ago said he

could shut his works British

motor tomorrow who has sent 6,000 workers that

stin and

pay a Only a great crash, ก

remain in a dividend to his shareholders on slump

of Longbridge hurrying to industry is to the 1929 scale,

condition flourishing

the the proceeds of the rights he maximum amount of mecha- hos

Catherine granted to engine-makers

the Great of could endanger the liveli. queue at the employment

exchange. He was faced misation is the

GTISWOT So he in America hood of millions. Yet many with the problem that

Russin did that in 1798 in for sacked men and lald out

and the see the falling car sales as every three vacancies

first fruity

memory of her lover Prince capital,

Potemkin. Potemkin will be seen in a year or two harbinger of disaster.

industry, only two workers from now. They believe that this is

were available. the first of a dozen indus- tries to become involved in

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On

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But many of the men now

If the

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Mr Dielt sn man of fore- sight and resolution and Mr Mucmillan was no doubt delighted by bis

the cycle of diminishing in jobs are engaged on the merely orders, smaller pay rolls, wrong things. and queues at the employ.

ment exchange.

Old age

They are making cars and washing machines and fumi-

actions.

What

[

is the upshot of all this? Quite simply We are

ture and household appliances in for a period in which Arms

Look too at the figures of

On spending

new factories. This year it will be 4s, In the

£ more than last year,

Does that spell slump?

Going up

ND consider, this orders for

like Imperial Chemicals and A machine Lools this year

at a time when we desperately Vickers and Stewarts and Lloyds are also up by 4a, in the £. need more electric generating will continue to boom while the Who ever heard of a equipment and machine tools

road-making ships

and

machinery electronic

Soft market

Does this mean that there is no danger, no danger at all of a major depression?

business was

JOT only the workers feel and steel and aircraft engines makers of what Americans culi facturer ordering costly new NOT

"consumer-durables"> will go machines If he thought his this fear. People with and

through a bad patch.

going to blazes? their savings invested

in and

calculators, industry ure reluctantly

Already output is rising in come Industries to compensate coming to believe that M

for the slowing-down in cars. depression is on the

Way

Among them are the railway rolling stock firms. And they are able to do it only because

lost to the men they

and that their old age will

be darkened by smaller divi. dends

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know that problem of putting up for the night the unexpected guest in 'a mali house was solved over 200 years ago?

Here's the evidenco - an which re- armchair made in 1720, great can be quickly extended to a 6ft mained Catherine's

Zin bed, And the Georgian favourite though succeeded craftsman who made it thought by many another lover. He of a place to put the mattress was an able administrator, when not in use-in a compart- built her Black Sea fleet and ment underneath, an iden re- gaining favour with twentieth- commanded the armies

century designers. which added the Crimea to her possessions.

At htg

RARE SCREEN

death Catherine ordered a communion cup to be For £2,000 you could buy a made in his memory. Weighing Dit x 24tt twelve-divisioned. 108 ozs. it was studded with screen. It is carved coromandel over 1,300 diamonds (in all 165 lacquer with a runO brown canata) and was presented to background, and was given In a convent in St Petersburg. 1070 to Mr and Mrs Jen Shen- su by 120 friends and relatives Now comes the first oppor as a combined birthday present tunily of buying it since it was If you can read Chinese, you bought 30 years ago from the will learn that Mr Jen, a great Soviet Government by Arm W

scholar, and his dutiful wife of London Jewellers, For it lived in complete conjugal hap is on show at the 16th Antique, piness and that their uncle was Dealers Fair in London.

great friend of Emperor.K'ang

What

What would it cost you? Ils Hel. owners just can't fix a price tag, to it. They just BRY Make an offer and we'll con- alder it,"

about

It in means. months ahead there were to be no increase in productivity, or, indeed, no divi- In other words, it had become

vital to divert the skilled If a long steel strikte occurred, me dends at all.

dates continued to factories are now drifting back and women from the if delivery

to their old jobs. frivolities of life to the absolute lag behind the Germans and the The money they set aside necessities which Britain must Japs, of course we should be

A After all,

year from now Britain

something so carefully to provide for make and export in order to in for a rough time,

monaller_comething

the form Imperial Palace itself? Maybe nobody owes Britain a living, may be a little leaner but could retirement has already been live.

be a great deal tougher. Thera

a pair of carty 18th century.· whittled away by a falling Chancellor Macmillan is But provided we make full need be no slump in the interim

HUMAN STORY period-just a little dislocation, stock market, and now every doing

dragons UNS in the only tee of this period and pro-

of the belt, and vided world markets got no a lightening line they read in the papers possible way. He has made it

should energe as some personal discomfort

They're only 9ft of the depression in the harder to sell the cars and the lighter wo

There's a human-story behind nation strengthened and skilled men are forced to move

of their having been the tho motor trade underlines their washing

doing he is forcing the workers refreshed by the slimming diet from Longbridge to Smethwick most of the high-priced baubles high and have five clawsu

or from Coventry to Newcastle, at the Fair.

Celestial One'a into the essential trades which, of 1966.

them General Foley brouroperty An historic silver-gilt ewer back after Britain is not on the down-

the sacking of grade and she could be on and rosewator dish nearly Peking during the Boxer The mend. Britain, is not in missed making an appearance Rising, and they're yours for

concern.

machines and by so

I am not a brash optimist: need their services.

I believe that a slight set- Yet because he does this tha back in Britain's luxury and cry of "alimp" echoes from consumer goods trades has Throgmorton Street to Glasgow.

Heartening

ET

be in for a hard winning taken for brass, by the emily

ploychrome enemol from the Emperor's Apartment.

for a depression but she could at the fair. They were mis- 220

£3,000, which owned them

with neglect.

personal

and had "Tute "if and buts" i have struggio in a trade war with

Whatever you

decide to buy, been long overdue and that what of the two other men lated may szem 'formidable America, Russia and Germany, over long years become, black you, can rest assured that it this setback is still in its vitally affected? Sir Leon but here. Ja heartening

was made before 1820, tho initial stages.":

ard Lord is the first. He forne thought, It is extremely un- Profit margins may be cul,

Ilno: dividing", antiques" his workers out because he likely that world markets will Tho Bu Leonard Lords of One day the family decided datum But I say most empha- cannot sell his cars.

contract

Industry will have to sit up to send to auction a number of aut "modern trash.de half the night planning and its possessions, The ower and Prices, you will have, dia- tically that in my opinion the worst that will happen for long.

They will not be on the dole To bring such an avent scheming to do better and dish were dumped on n'rubalah covered, haven't changed much"

heap as valueless, but, black as recently, although, Birmingham with about, America hormo}f only produce, a situation and one different trades will this election year the whole

strength of the to abandon their cry of Moro which will compare favour- soak them up.

Republican Party will be des pay for fewer hour, but I for ably with the so-called And us for Bir Leonard, ha "voted to ensuring that no such one bellave that: this glasa prosperity years just before must plan anew to provide, catastrophe gocułw.

beginning, and not an end,

must make more money. D

the

in the next 12 months can all its resilience and its hundred frst enter, a slump, and it thoundon leaders will havn were, the family gardener dealers will tell you, bunlabor is

maniyo

rescued

them, thinking they slow in these days of financiël might fetch a few shillings at restrictions, Prices ·remain the naão phongth

atency because i trorą: prople Just before the action somes than ever are chaing any evetu, one recognised them se silver- diminishing supply, of antique