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THE CHINA MAB,, NATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1957.

REGINNING TODAY: AN OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF GEORGE VI.

The Improbable King

• Controversy flares around the Monarchy. The Queen and her Court are criticised. Now comes a significant new study of the man who was one of the great influences on the

Queen.

TN the Duke of York's quiet London, home the telephone Would the Duke come over to his brother, King Edward VIII, at Fort Belvedero?

Though the two brothers had always been friendly they had geen little of each other since Edward VIII come to the Throne.

Recently the Duke had heard something of the dif- ficulties which sprang from Edward's friendship with Mrs Simpson. He supposed, without much

On December

14,

1801,

that

+100

With a terrible Briek reverberated down the

Queen Victorin reflection, ridors,

senseless across the body of her dead husband.

that claims of duty might now end this friendship.

As he motored out of Lon- over in his don, he turned mind words of sympathy and affection for his hard-pressed brother.

Overwhelming surprise awaited him at Fort Belvedere. He found the King packing, “I Incan to marry Mrs Simpson. And I am ready to go." This was ikiward's unshakable re- solution. Now welcoming Bertie, he said lightly: "You are not going to find this a difcuit job at all. With these casual words Albert Duke of York found himself transformed Into King George VI.

A SHRIEK

No

fell

The man who was her father.

The Duke of York's camp

an annual rituel.

Bertie's father

now became signed by the Prince Consort: in his turn Prince of Wales. He It had been the principal re- wao despatched on, tours over sidence, along with Balinoral, sens, a task Edward VII did not in the Queen's long retirement. feel inclined to undertake.

CHAMPAGNE

Edward VII hated it and-dis carded it at once. But there was no escape for Vlatoriu's great- grandchildren. Here, they went,

THE children were left in the back under her shadow."

charge or their grandfather, It is difficult to desedhe And what a differencet Discip-to Ina broke down. When the tion.

there without exaggera» Were such conditious, lo boys were summoned to their be discovered now in a Borstal lessons, Edward VII, cigar in institution, the Home Secretary one hand, brandy-gloss In responsible would be driven the other, would say in his trom office overnight.

by A. J. P. TAYLOR

Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford.

Albert, shortened by the family reached #man's estate. Now on guttural tones: "The boy can to Bertic. This was also the the surface all was affection, stay with us for another har or private name of his grandfather But a letter which George V sp." Edward VII-not, however, as wrote to his second son at the we shall sec, such

in 1923 a welcome time of his marringe connection.

tells the real story:--

Prince Albert was a second son, like his father before him. His elder brother, David, Inter Albert the Prince Consort dies to be briefly known as Edward VIII, had been born come 18 at Windsor Castle.

months earlier.

Unül 1802 the Duke of York, their father, had been a pro- *Then noval officer. fessional Eddie. Duke of Claronne, died suddenly

the Duke of and From that day the Queen York found himself unexpect wis Dover out of mourning. edly second in line of succession For almost 40 years Albert's to the Throne, room was preserved unchanged. his clothes

He married the Princess who laid out every had been intended for his elder morning, fresh water always

# brother, and reluctantly gave dragged through

an endless up his naval career. round of public duties, all joy vanished. A black existence. The darkest day in it year was December 13.

by the basin. Queen Victoria

each

THE REBEL

&

£1 A TERM

THE

mildest punishment

was "three days I.A." The Duke of Windsor has described

it as "alternately going round. the stable yard at the double carrying a rod across the back of my shoulders, and facing, the paintwork for an hour at

THE TWO BOYS HAD A time in the seamanship room." BRIEF

OP GLIMPSE

4 The wretched boys were drag- BOCIETY IN WHICH PEOPLE god from their bods at 8 a.m. in "You have always been, no.

DID WHATEVER THEY MOBT summer, 0.30 in winter, Thirty sensible & easy to work with ENJOYED. A LIFE OF ROYAL seconds for prayers; and then, PLEASURE SUCH AS HAD whatever the season, plunged always been NOT BEEN you bave

KNOWN SINGE into a tank of ice-cold water. ready to listen to any advice &to arres with my opinions THE REGENCY. about people &- ihingi that I feel we hayo always get on well together. Very different to dear David."

not

won

Champagne corks, popped na fast as sporting guns. You could take your choice between the

and bridge tables

glamorous ladice.

Tils prise, was without cost. Prince Albert David's eyes güttered. This was shy and nervous. The end was regality indeed. less bluster and ragging from his father made him worse.

REMOVED

The

Prince

of Wales insisted that his sons should be exposed to

the full blast, and "Treat thers like cadets make them realise their respon». sibilities."

Each boy received only £i a term

and pocket - money, thore were no supplements from home. But the Indulgent grandparents sometimes broke the rule,

for

Moreover, he was by nature left-handedt This was drummed out of him but not DERTE pursed his lipa In

In 1910, relcasa came completely. He wrote, shot, silence. Very enjoyable, no played

But far removed from David, though not for Bertie. golf in right-handed doubt, fashion: played tennis, used a

the standards to which, in day

Edward VII returned coughing spade and tools with his left. of his birth committed him.

from Biarritz; announced pt "I mean --to carry, He soon got back to those lunchtime: A standarde. The Prince of Wales on then, slili smoking a cigar, YET THIS WAS

OF SPEECH, would not trust his sons to

and coughing more, choked, IN 1894 WHEN THE QUEEN'S always in ringing tones 05 BARELY NOTICEABLE

died, GREAT - GRANDSON CHOSE though

IN public school. A naval training a heavy storm were PRIVATE LIFE, WHICH LEFT had been good enough for him. TO BE BORN. EVERYONE blowing. And, though a loving THE PRINCE TONGUE-TIED it would WAS FULL OF APOLOGIES. father, treated his children as WHEN HE HAD TO MAKE A the 86 they

importinent midshipmen who PUBLIC APPEARANCE, had to be licked into shape.

TIE retained the manners of

THE DAY Hthe quarterdeck. He spoke HESITATION

THE RESULT WAS

then

The baby's tother, Duke of York and later George V, expressed "regret that this dear child should be born an such a sad day!!

men has succceded to a

The baby's grandfather, then throne with less warning. Prince of Wales and soos to be Foto plays strange tricks, few Edward VII, apologised to stranger than this. To explain. "Mamma" and rebuked his son, It we must go back a long way. The baby would have apologised back exactly 34 years before too if he had known how in Goorge VI's birth,

appropriately. he had appeared Yet, as Queen Victoria com- mented have a feeling it may be a blessing for the dear little boy and may be looked upon as a gift from God?"

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Maybe it was. At any rate the sad birthday flæed the pattern of his life,

A

life of harshs handicapa dutifully overcome,

The only discreditable day

In George VI's He was the first.

The

elder tuo thrown much together

boys,

by

their ncarness .in ope, reacted differently to this iTentment.

David followed the pattern which has been traditional in the British Monarchy ever since the House of Hanover acquired the Throne in 1714.

rebelled Ho

against father's heavy hand and relect ed his father's example.

P

be good enough for were sent ONT, A David, then Bertie, to the naval school at Osborne. His education did little to make matters better. Indeed it This wos ELIT appropriate.

is amazing that David and irony. Bertio became civilaed human- beings at all after the upbring. ing they endured.

LONELY

HIRST, there wene private his tutors. Tho two. PrinceS hardly ever saw another boy of their own age. They were crammed in modern languages, He would be glamorous, gay, mathematics. They played

and up to date, where his father, pathetic

almost solitary was censorious and conservative. games. Their father behoved

Ilko

officer, a stern superior Bertle took a different Inc. summoning them to his pre- Like many second sons he sence by a footsman and rofus- conformed and won his father's ing to see them unannounced. upproval, On one occasion, It

is true, he pulled his tutor's The only break in the routing. From then on he was intent to beard. David would have done tame when Queen Victoria, died With and Edward VII ascended the show that he would never again this in violent rebellion.. offend

Queen Victoria, his Bertle it was boyish fun or Throne. great-grandmother, or even the perhaps scientific curiosity. shado of his great-grandfather · the long dead Princo Consort

On the day. of the Queen's Of course' fashions had funeral, he and Wilhelm II of changed, with the times. In the Germany puffed cigars in the 12 went. without saying eighteenth century David would state drawing room at Wind- that the baby should be known not have been on speaking terms sor, where lobacco had never by the Prince Consort's name, with his father as soon as he been smelt before,

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