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THE CHINA MAIL, SÅTURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1957.

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SHOULD LITTLE BILLY

CAN FREE MAC-STRIP HAVE BEEN WILLIAM IV?

EUROPE

By GRAHAM CAWTHORNE

'who weighs up news að a "truly spectacutzș” of strike in Southern Algeria, Ber- dering on the Sabacat, a discovery which a Franca official described as "far and awty the THOL important

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"The Princess of Wales," replied Charlotte, lins been at

Carlton Houso Blackheath."

since had

HEN Mr Filt, the fact husband and wife and ● Was William children unless it could be proved that access was im- Prime Minister, that the marriage certificate went out to Black was in existence; and Co- Austin the son of a possible or that he was im heath to dine with line herself told her lawyer sail-maker or of potent. George would havo

It reins le me to be reasonabla assume paternity and the Princess of Wales a year that "William Austin" Princess Caroline

to assume that Little Billy, Little Billy would eventually,

though actually the child of or so before the Battle of Prince Loula's child--though

the Princo Louis Ferdinand and thing she said that the mother was and therefore heir to if he lived, land on ohe Trafalgar,

throne n lady of the Germar court the

of throne.

Caroline, could have been shown' irritated him,

to be "legally" the child of the and that the infant had been

That is a That, surely, was what Prince and Princess of Wales brought over to her in Eng- England?

He could not help frown- brought in a lu-ly baby who

ink When the footman was held up by his breeches over the dessert and allowed to choose what he wanted.

orders.

answer

to those who said throne when George IV died in land in 1803 by the Prince's secret that may lie in Caroline meant when, in and thus the "legal" heir to the

1830. a chestful of docu- that she

was the child's Ahe retorted: But the rumour, backed by monts immured at mother. considerable evidence, that, Windsor since 1935.

whoever the father may He bawled, kicked the wine over and eventually have been, Caroline herself started howling for a spider was the mother of "Little Billy" was Hо strong that on the celling. They tried to divert him by offering him the King, George II, order- a variety of playthings, but ed the matter to be probed he insisted on the spider. "Then," recorded Mr Pitt's niece, there calling of footmen and long sticks and such a to-do."

A was much

NO CROWN

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by HUGH WILLIAMSON

"Prove it and he will be EVENTUAL HEIRESS your King." The question If this were so, then he,,not turned on whether or flöt - Goorge IV's brother, should have "access" was impossible) toen William IV; and his cousiu, Victoria, should not have comi Lady Douglas, whose to the throne until the year of charges against Caroline led his death 1849. to the "Delicate Investiga-

Queen Victoria, of course, was tion," swore that when Caro the eventual heiress, qo tho

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by the Lord Chancellor,

line had told her of her matter in no way aftecis the the Lord Chief Justice and other discreet investigators,

though she succession. It is of his- pregnancy,

torical interest only. And since would not reveni the father's the wuth can harm no one, I These eminent servants of the Crown held what la known in history as the of view was surely that he name, she suld she hoped it cannot see why the chestful of

which would be a boy and that "if documents

were taken "Delicate Investigation" and was her half-brother.

it was discovered she would and immured in the archives at

from the Pubile Record

office give the Prince of Wales the Windsor in the July of 1933 credit of being the father should not be returned for an for she had slept two nights impartial investigation by kla at Carlton House within the erians. That the final proof of

arrived at the conclusion He went, however, further than that. On Christmas Day, 1814, he sent for Chur- lotte and told her, in the pre- sence of his sister Mary, as year." a witness: "As long as I live this boy can be of no sort of BRANDED A LIAR consequence, but if I shoul die, then the boy may be a

that, as far as Caroline wat The child, known as concerned, "The facts of "Little Billy" or "Willikins," pregnancy and delivery are presumably got the spider. to our minds satisfactorily What he did not get, when disproved." he grow up, was the Crown of England. Ought he 10 have done? Ought he to have

DOUBTFUL

And though Lady Douglas was, by the findings of the Com- nissten, branded 陛 Hur, tho rested, when Government whed to, la bring perjury pro

her. They veedlings

ale obviously dare not submit the matter to the test of trial rad evidence.

Charlotte,

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been our King William IVT It was the inevitable very serious misfortune to It is an interesting question. official finding. but it Is you as well as the country." Officially, he was William doubtful if anyone privately Some weeks later, he wrote Caroline ad- to Charlotte that there could sail- accepted it. Austin, the son of a maker at Deptford, whom mitted later to her lawyer be no doubt "that the time when she will Caroline, Princess of Wales, that she had made fuols of may come had adopted. Nobody doubt the investigators and her exert her utmost efforts in

And Princess ed that she was very fond husband, George, Prince of favour of the boy."

certainly believed

against ther ብ'ን How could this be? Even entirely of him. He had never left Wales,

Mury Bunt were interest, old her if "William Austin" her from the time that he that "Lite Billy" was her

when she tried to reassure her proved to be Caroline's son, was born (more or less) till sou. the time that she died,

He forbade Princess Char- nobody supposed he was lotte, his own daughter by George's. He was, that is to Caroline, ever to see the boy say, patently legitimate. when she went to Blackheath Yet, because legally if a to visit her mother, because husband was in the King-

from two points, of view he dom ("within

She left him all her money and property and he accom- panied her body to Burn wiek for her burial,

The general who received the cortege immediately recognised him and roundly

said that he was not William Austin but the son of German prince.

LOVE AFFAIR

&

"It is probable that the prince in question was Louis Ferdinand, nephew of Frederick the Great, who was killed fighting against It was Napoleon in 1806. common knowledge that Prince Louis had been in love with Caroline and she with him before she was sent to England to merry the Prince of Wales.

He had visited her secret- Mre at Blackheath. ly Fitzherbert asserted that Louis and Caroline were in

the

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by emphasising that Little Billy could be of no con quenco ville George was alive: my father thinks, but I am not

so sure of that."

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papers

the matine le or was there, be doubled since It is with precisely these matters that the missing

aro con- cerned. And the withholding of then can only deepen suspicions that there may be more in the merious affair of William Auştin than anyone has so far sup- posed.

On what grounds

any by whom was he certified insane in Italy and put in an asylum in Milan in the automa of 1841, which, by an odd coincidence, was the time when Queen Vic- toria gave birth in England 10 the future King Edward VII?

Why was he moved from Italy to England in 1848 and put in a private asylum in Chelber? The answer may be in tho missing papers,

(The cast of William Austin 12 "But," said Princess Mary, "į dealt with at greater length in High

Rom Willumson's believe tho Prince can prov

"Enigmas of to be published by Michael that he has not been for many History, years under the same roof as the Joseph.)

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was an improper companion seas") he was presumed to for her." One of the points be the father of his wife's Princess."

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