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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1957.

THE HOUSE, OF WINDSOR CELEBRATES ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

'I'LL BE DAMNED IF I'M AN ALIEN'

-SAID KING GEORGE V

by on

PATRICK MONTAGUE-SMITH

Airfitent Editor at Debreit,

THE House of Windsor celebrated its fortieth birthday On July 17, 1917, King George V, by Royal Pro- clamation, declared that his house and family should henceforth bear that name. What was the reason for the change?

It all stericd with the Russian I Revolution, ARtr the fall of the Tear Joll - win!! intellectual started a malletus

whispering campaign that the King and the Royal Family must be

pro-

Lord Rosebery wrote to Lord "Do you realise Stamfordham: that you have christened dynasry

Inevitably the question

Lk0

Crown would pase into female ne with his Krand- daughter. It was 0 Popular move of the Queen when, soon after cr acccasion, stic an- nounced that she would not be the last of the well-loved House of Windsor, but that her children would continue in that House and name,

had been

done by

this

RECORD ROUND

MEETS THE BROTHERS WHO HAVE JUST BOUGHT A KING'S CAR AND LEARNS .

become an overnight

How to discovery (YEARS

IN TEN

THE second-hand car salesman's inte utopie

men, some of the most aristocratic people in Europe have graced these fine upholstered seals-and the car's yours for four hundred quid."

Michael King said it was)

been custom-

by RAMSDEN

GREIG

Original Dixia

Bad

Acting

tus opposed to aglinteil) rock first-class tracks include: King W. Jouer called Freed Wisely, they have backed this Land One Step, one with n more subdued plece Woman and High Society. enlled In the Midle of an Island.

"Mums must have something to sien to as well," says 20-

Affer a busy week in the music-halls, the TV studios and

Though no parallel exists in a deal, and the three King from music-hall to music. or may of being, retained Brothers took possession of hall, from recording studio are our

a shooting brake that had to recording studio. House through the female line,

the originally Romanovs and Habsburgs, and built for use by the late It was put at any dia the recording studios the King more recently in Holland, where King George VI's Sandring-poal this week when I went Brothers can take home to their own mother n £200 pay packet. Queen Julinna

continued

ham guests.

Southsea to sco its. It is Mother King who looks the nomenclature of

Today it transports this owners, currently employed after her sons' finances, mother's House of Orange.

[London Express Service). singing, swinging ensemble in theatre obligingly call.

ed the King's

has

CT

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is

A British

Crossword Puzzle

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German since they hed German-asked, what was the Royal sur- sounding ramcq.

name preylously? The

H. G. Wells wrote to Times that the time had etme to rid ourselves of "the ancient trappings 01 throne and

beep tre," and on another occa- sion referred to the sed spec- tacle of England through adversity

The answer is simple. Since the departure of the Stuarts they did not possess one. Botk the House of Hanover and the House

and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha

Edward VII (to which Strugging and

George V belonged. under "an

nchlever had

ruling status alien and uninspiring Court."

the

long Continent "I may be uninspiring." remark- on ed the Incensed King to a friend, "but I'll be duned if I'm alien."

Royal surname

He consulted his Privule Sc- cretary, Lord Stamferduzm, to what the Royal surname really was. No one had given the matter any thought Fince the death of Queen Victoris, and even her nume had been subject of much argument,

the

Lord Siemiurcium consulted

Mr Fanhun Burke of the College of Aims, but he could not be positive, le doubted if it was Guelph, but surmised that It might be Wetten or Wipper. How he arrived at the latter, one is at a loss to understand,

The King wisely decided that It was time that an undisputed and British Royal surname and House name should be adopted. After all, hls direct necstors had been reigning here for 200 it 19 dimcult to years, and Imagine

unyone more British than George V.

Then Lord Stamfordham, the King's private scoretury, thought, why not Windsor? The Castle had been the seat of our Mon- archy since the days of the Conqueror, Edward II, born within its walls, was known as "Edward Windsor." It seem- ed to fit the Royal Family like a glove. The suggestion was im- mediately welcomed by the King. and approved by the Privy Cound).'

came into vogue, and so had no need in adopt them.

before surnames

Though

Victoria's Queen family wes popularly supposed to have been Guelph, a former Clarenceux King of Arms dis-

tbourd. missed this as

The rarest one entiid got to a sur- name would have been d'Este. The sandy origitally ruled over II snil terrikey of Este in

embardy,

and this was the name given to the offspring of

the Vleloria's uncle, Qacen Duke of Sussex, by his secret macringe.

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The Prince Con-ort could trac back to one Thierry Buziel, Thuringian noble living in 050. For a few genera- tions centuries ago his descen- dants were. Counts of Wettin, a small town on the banks of the Sante in Saxony, but this hard- surname, constitutes ly though it is sometimes errone- ously put forward as the pre- dectisor of Windsor,

Popular move

Similarly, unul Prince Philip adopted his mother's surname of Maunthalten, he possessed no surname. He belonged to the House of Schleswig-Holstein- Senderborg-Glucksburg, which, in turn, was a branch of the House of Oldenburg, whose origin was in Friesland.

George V could not

have forescen in 1917 thaL the

31

ACROSS

1 Le une's head (5)..

4 Often high thoroughtsm (81.

DOWN

I Too was his son (5).

5 Ruler of Abyssinia (3).

For Oriental worstilppurs 18),

3 Lebanon irce? (5).

16 Villaste 0897 (3).

12 Clever (0),

14 Player hold back? (7),

17 Flower airi (4),

19 Made a changu (7).

20 Doom (7).

22 Not in favour (4).

23 Rook as buard (7.

27 da upt (83,

20 lt of a mix-up (5)

30 Mexenges run 11 (8)..

31 Don't do 111: 18).

32 Model question? (5),

5 Threctome (4),

Now paper ellet (6).

7 In the peerage (8),

ja Here's a luan, get moving! (7).

sue instructions (0),

13 Libernik (7),

15 Faving a good surfper (4).

16 Quie, completo 18),

Withered (4)

20 Kept back by a bank (0).

Front sents (03.

2 Bed tightly (6).

25 is in front, on the roof (5).

20 and Mina“ is a bishoprie (81

2 Searjet and Co. (4).

FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD —Across: 3 offer.ces, & Hoar, 0 Turnover, 11 Consoler, 33, Stor, 15 Adi Sitle, 1Ldecisor, 19 Arab. 21 Chostire, 25 Comusicle, 24 Mt.2. 27 Auto tomy, Down: 1 Chile, 2 Pa-ih. 4 Foul, 5 Eors, 6 Cavit, 1 Sprat, P Total, to Relle, 12 Order, 14 Opens, 16 Tue, 17 Cease, 19 Acēru. 20 Admif, 91 Clan, 22 Alum, 93 Ibex, 24 Exes.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

to

Jabbing my neck from the back seatя was a double bass. An empty beer bottle rolled about the floor.

I thought: "Sandringham was never like this."

I went to Southsea to dis- cover how to become (as the

An allowance

allowance.

• Joan Regan is entiuaminatio about love on Wonderi!, Won- derful (Deoca 78). 1 em en- about her treatment thruslastio of it

• The Four Acts, a kind of ballpoint Ink Spots, put new life That's into that oldie Yessir. My Baby (Brunswick 78).

D

CLASSICAL

by DAVID BLACK

10 you remember the name of Pierino Gamba? This re.

Denis says: "She fools the bills, pays our ugen's his ten per cent and gives each of us a weekly spending Tony being two years older markable young conductor first than I am, gets a little more came to Britain in 1948--when than I do.

he was 10 years oldland filed the Harringay Breda.

"Mike gets the biggest allow- ance because he does the enter-

Laining and also has a girl to take out," says Tony, referring

Another infant prodigy mak-

me a brief splash and then dis fainly not Gamba goes

-appearing without', Iraco7

King Brothers' publicity to Alm actress Janette Scott. rirength to strength, Examine

man had put it) a "sen- gational overnight covery."

dis

I have to report that in the case in question it took 10 years to become a sen- sational overnight discovery. Big Brother Michael King (22), said: "It's been hard sfogging

One grey cloud threatens the progress of the King Brothers, Denis King is due to be called up for National Service. (His brothers were turned down on medical grounda)

"I Denis goes the act breaks up," says Michael King "Little the brother's plano-playing is hard core of the combination."

Tony King adds wryly: "The all the way unly consolation would be a from school hall concerts decided improvement in Naa

piano-playing."

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