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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1961.

Margaret's Baby

No title

the Throno, Princess Murgaret's baby will be plain Master or Mist Armstrong-Jones-unless the Queen makes Tony Armstrong-Jones a peer of high degree, or confers some special style upon the infant itself,

LTHOUGH fifth in the line of succossion to

Since the edict of King George V in 1917, Princesses have not transmitted any titles to their It is understood that until very shortly children, before the birth of the Prince of Walos, the fact that any baby born to the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) would not be a Prince or Princess but would take the normal titles of a child of an ordinary duke was over- lookod.

As spoodily as possiblo the matter was dealt with by letters patent declaring that the children of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh should

unless the

BY CYRIL HANKINSON

EDITOR OF DEBRETT

hold and enjoy the style and attribute of Royal High- nest and the titulan dignity of prince or princess,

*

PREVIOUSLY there had been of course the case of the Princess Royal, who married the Earl of Hare- wood, but as she had four brothers it was not deemad necessary that ber children should be given any royal stylo.

At the time of his marriage it was said that Mr peerugo. Armstrong-Jones did not with to accopt a However, now that Princess Margaret is expecting a baby, he might possibly change his view.

Should he do sa, one imagines that the titlo bestowed upon him would not be less than that of

Queen acts

marquis. Otherwise the younger sons would only be the Hon. (general form of address "Mr") whereas sons and daughters of a duke or marquis would bo lord and lady, which would be more in keeping.

If Mr Armstrong-Jones continuos to be avorso to a title, then the Queen could still follow the example of her father by issuing letters potent, bestowing upon. Princess Margaret's children the style and precedence of, say, the sons and daughters of a duke or marquis.

NO ONE can say what the Queen with do, but i hova boon unable to discover any princess of Great Britain whose children had no title or procedence.

Last year's declaration by the Quéon that any of hor descendants who should require a surname should. have that of Mountbatton-Windsor does not apply to the children of her sister,

(London Express Servier).

SHY MEN This 'exile' could be

WITH

Lisbon.

NIMBLE WHILE football fever

FINGERS

has

rising been here in Lisbon's hot streets and while Portu- gal's rich society women

To the men in Reading have been making long

and the surrounding

country-side who

charity appeals on tele-

do vision for the white re-

needlework secretly at fugees from Angola, I

home-and, apparently,

have been looking into

another Mitford

there are lots of them the story of a refugee autobiography, Mercury. Presides the Duke of Westminster and on

(published in 1954 and still in luxurious cruiseg

Benverbrook. print).

this appeal is being made: "Don't be shy.

from British society.

Just

mu menibers

Puge? by

with Lord

WONDERFUL

to Lord the

It begins with this memorable The connection with the Let the public see your Book

this: Paragraph

"I have been told by people A work."

book

remark- who knew my

father and will be mother novelist

when they were frst The 150 ladies of the Berk-able new

Orce, returning En- Fire Tarantela

Its married that their quarrels were Britain. mablished in broiderers' nid and the fear

Seine, Daphne sold how won every throwable object in the or the branch title: THE ADONIS GAR- so violent that, after throwing Beaverbrook's yacht in are ready to welcome the fur-DEN (Eure and Spottix room, they would use the baby derful it had been to drink vin as a missile. I was the baby." rose ashore after the unchank- tive enthusiasts with open arms. rond, 16s.). Its author now

Ing supply of champagne aflum, Il goes on:- know there are lots of men lives in the hills beyond Lis-

four Months later at a Beaverbrook mexilework here who dis

bon. Her

name-Daphne F. Major

times: she might have married party in London she found that hume,"

Afth, had she Strange, formerly of the Road Fielding. Engineers, e if the four, » his Jun

101 Kidmore-road, Caversham Heights,

"A mur exhibitions of work rond with they have walked their wives and I've heard them whispering lean do that,

Tapestries

C.

ان

Yes, they do -secretly hong. There are hundreds of men, for example, doing tapestry and carpet work. But they are ant into 140 To shy to come

21.

been a life-long 1 you have follower of the society columns, what a peal of associations that

tinkling. You will set eme

as the lovely, will know that,

Hon. Daphine gay-mouthed Vivian, aber was one of the brightest of the bright young armarried this in the 1920's You will also know that she then married one of the biggest catches of the time-dashing. broken-nosed Henry, heir to the Marquis of Bath,

You will also know that, having eventually become of Bath and Marchioness

the mistiess of

vast stately home, Longlen, in Wiltshire, suddenly divorced marquis in 1939

she

"My mother

hot found that man for the w.hom she lest father a1- MY ready and 1 wife."

married

BOOKS

Daphne's by ROBERT PITMAN

But mother was not 2003-

the only conventional

member

of the whereas every other guest had family. There was her mother's champagne, a bottle of vin rose slood at her place at the table, father-

Such were the things about Daphine's luxurious first life thai rend above the clouds in the Comet.

was

People of the pink twilight...

IT takes 90 hours and costs £7 5s to curu Russian.

It takes 18 hours and costs £17 159 to learn to drive a car.

It takes 67 hours and costs—m so it was cold in a court report the other day-£185 to learn to danco woll enough for a bronze medat.

But then, the London Dance Institute which successfully' sued a man because he had no paid for his lessons-docs offer so much more than the Poly- technic or a driving school. Especially it you're lonely, or shy, or plain.

It

glamour nna gives you gracious living and friends—at

price.

The glass swing dors of the institute in Oxford-stre allow on intriguing promise of low lights and salt music.

The

Inside doesn't let you down.

It's all pink shared dark wallpaper, and lights, and

ensy chairs, comfortable.

And teachers and students are as well-scrubbed and whole- some as the children at an - fants' dancing clusa.

The

Isn't called the Little Ballroom, It's called the Carousel.

The bronze, silver, and gold medals

the are awarded by instituto's own dance directress, and don't mean much outside the school,

"It is not only an award," Mr Douglas Graham, who la asals- lant to the principal, explained. "It is nothing you have no- body can take away from you." This is reat dream-world, dancing-world talk.

Personality

of

It is the nura

unreality that makes this pinic twilight under Oxford-sizcet succass- ful.

the It is

Ton why duzens of people sign on again and again for more and more lessons so that they don't have lo give up the einsniest club One family they ever know, of five has been coming for two

years.

33 danec instructress bright, and pretty, with a neat way with a cha-cha-cha, and na colinent form.

The medals

Lovely certainly different from ing. In an elderly way. Longleat's drives ("We call that legs. But her manner is fright- bil Becher's Brook," laughed fully roynf. She has a devoted who's been with Daphne Fielding as the little car chamberlain

The her for centuries. orbli). almost went into pretty, nestling house looked

"The poor man has an awful different too.

une. on his nitment the hair

grows inwards apparently

Something stead of outwards.

Then I was taken from room

to roan and the picture changed,

A door opened and we found to do with the follicles. ourselves in a high-roofed din regularly has

to

ing hall. A huge bear's head Switzerland to have it put

anarled from one wall.

"Dear right way round."

Bendor Westminster gave me

that after wo had killed it near Rouen," said Mrs Fielding.

face

TA-

He

the

BOAR'S HEAD

to

From the kitchen a cricket. As I sat in the sun listening trapped by the Portuguere cook, it seemed that things had not sang out from its tie cage peritaps changed so much for The Servant girls wearing a special the ex marchioness. chatter. the traditional splendid

quict simple version of Portuguese dress padded post. servants, the bour's head in the dining-room, even the strong- the had my worded parral-all "I designed their dress self." said their mistress. "Poor Mercury Presiden touch. dears, they will work so hard.

Then Xan Fielding came into There are three of them work-

two the garden. His sensitive brown Ing for us Indoors--with

with rage. He was taut men in the garden. Their total face

parcels of books held up some bill for wages is just

had which he from London week."

the local post-

013

‘A BOLTER'

looked ni

a

fetched

moster.

Poringal

from

"They've

In

been four days." he cried, we have to read them "and and review them." He opened took parcels and one of the a letter from the book. "Here's from one asking for a review you."

We moved into the hot sun.

iint cold

tea. al Sipping Daphne Fielding talked about her mother. "Of course, she was really a boltor-like the girl in the Mitford novel. Always bolt-

"I'd have to work ali night another. ing from one man to But her last anarriage has been at li," said Mrs Fielding. wonderfully trappy. It's lasted

Her husband shrugged: He's Alsation, Then you've jolly well got to, "We deserted my grandmother

nearly 33 years.

And years younger It's our living. Those stupid, and mother, who was then

you know. than her, like Xam with me."

whining swine kept saying, mall child, leaving a noie

Near me in the garden a tame P's not our fault, excellency. say that he bad gone to. Aus

parrot chaltered in Portuguese. I told them: I'm no excellency.

me and tralla, She heard nothing

I am a worker-and you fools and then him for two years,

What Dj her second life Suddenly it

1roke into startileg English. have been keeping me from my a delective today? discovered through

Using a vernacular phrase, I

work. agency that he had been living

In the bar of my Lisbon hotel told me to go away. its owner

"It's such a lovely Later I went see the room all the time with a woman, by whom he had a child, in a Bat

I was met by a strikingly hand- laughed:

sometimes when we have

where Xan Fielding works at close to the Albert Holl.

some middle-aged couple. They int

their lingering guests. Recently it his brilliant translations. Then drink.

were the Fieldings. In eventually died of

little Continental car they took few round the valley shouting I went to his wife's work-room.

the Portu- not before distinguishing him-

Fortunately the poor self by taking off all his clothes me off into the hills at Gagarin the same thing at "I watched my wife and so

speed. In a crowded tube train.

things didn't know English." became interested in

Then there was Daphne her-

As I cluiched white-faced at I asked her if she had met said, "and joined the School in

like a fome self, sweeping

of the royal exiles in 1946 while stationed in Lunden." Occupying a prend position on

an knows is exactly how Daphne through the maddest Waugh the car sides, Daphne Fielding any wall is

time parties. As a young mur- told me about their house. "Estoril. The parrot squawked its

only English phrase at his sitting root

scene, Fielding's second Nativity

ried couple (they had already a Hansel and Gretel cottuge," embroidered

shouted. "No electriclly. again. Mrs Fielding sald: il she married fur

have met Madame Lupescu. She 32in. by 12in., which took him swerved aside from the course

full-dress Just ail lamps." the when 15 months sparetime work-the of the first. This is my report. been sterelly

In the Comet on the way to year

It sounded very different from calls herself Princess. Helena, of

She is very good look place) she and longest he has taken on

The rocky approach course. Lisbon I filled in the detalls of ceremony took place.

first life from her own Henry went boar-hunting with Longical that

Major Strange--he is an "old buy of the Royal Schoul Newark, which is rate ed with clear and which he is hting to keep open-has been ching all types

for 20 year church woj.

of embroidery He specialises

one

-ondon Express Service).

and married hero a literary man and war Xan naoned

(Alexander) Fielding, several years younger than herself.

NOT ALONE

But what

almost Do one

life

has

NANNIES-IN-WAITING.

He

but

·

BY JAK

Landon Bayrare dyryton.

"WATCH IT GIRLS—A TALENT SCOUT FROM THE PALACE!"

guese.

me

1

She said: "I our royalties or pay cheques for reviews are Into 1 sometimes have to pop some of my Jewels in Lisbon. The pawn-shops here dun't have three balls,

they you know: have a pelleni biting at itself instead."

She patted her writing

desk

"I remember Max Beaverbrook teaching mo to write in the twenties. Ho was my duri Honry didn't like ma writing articles, albough he ndored Max. Max would keep-growling at mai 'More imagery, more imagery. 1 x hear his voice as I start work cach morning.

And the result of all this work? I belleve that The Adonis Garden could easily have success on the Milford senl. Since it does not appear til next week cannot review it here. But the publishers in their blurb describe it thus:-

"In a sunlit corner of Spain a group of highly unconven- tional people are holly engaged in love affairs, intrigues, and occasional hostilitles...."

The publishers mention drug party in Tangler ("Yes, that took place all right." Daphne Fielding fold me); they mention a beautiful American girl who repeatedly strips to the waist. ("She's almost an exact copy. We know one who keeps madly stripping.")

THE REVERSE

From the tone of the blurb I suspect that some reviewers may be led to denounce the book na an out-of-time return to the let's-bo-naughty mood af the twentier. But is that the real palut of the book?

"No, just the reverse," Daphno Fielding told me. "You see, I Dily those pour middle-aged expatriates who try to be so ray. It's so sad, sad.”

the

But I should say that now, determined, professional Daphne Fleiding, who, told ma that has never been happier in har whole fantastic flís."

-London Express Bervice).

lavish The success of these Juxurious danco schools is that they don't ever call a hard com- inercial fact by a hard commer- eial

The method of drumming-up business by picking names out of the telephone book, ringing the number, and telling sort Ured housewife who's been un her feet all day that she's been Jucky enough to win two tres Lessons at the school is culled a telephone Invitation.

The commission the instruc- tor instructress gets her medal is pupil gets his bronze called an incentive bonus.

The weekly dances (everyone who's going for the bronze can go to the dance, and join In group lessons free) have merry nanes ke The Wild West Ho- Club Down, or the Laurels or the Topsy Turvy Dance,

The big baliroom is called the Big Ballroom. But the tle one

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"Anyons who has taken oir bronze medal is weletene back to the institulo to join in the group dancing and the weekly events for a year afterwards,” said Mr Craham, a handsom Canadian who itsed to be an instructor.

"Pieple come here for more than just

you the dancing, know. They come for the social life. Students sometimes are so shy that they can't suy a word to anyone. Within a few weeks they've come out. personality people.

sonally people.'

They are Real per.

Mr Graham offered the a But £2 a week baste course. seemed to me an awful lot of money for the pleasure of a dance.

Even with the added incentive henus of becoming a Personality

Person.

SHIRLEY LOWE

"This one's longer than I first thought, lady!"

"Ho'a

half-wit

Sira ----

"Don't adjust the net, dear, it's

only pro

about Kramm

madera art."

"Here is his prescription-one slipper, administered to the fower regions thrice dallylTM