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KING GEORGE V. WHOSE DEATH IS MOURNED BY THE WORLD

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His Early Training Has Merit Of Originality

A MONARCH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

The second child of the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VII. was born in London on June 3, 1865, at Marlborough House. There was a difference of opinion between the Prince of Wales and his Royal. mother as to the name which the boys should bear. Queen Victoria criticised the parents' choice of what they described as the English name of "George," after the Duke of Cambridge, who served as one of the sponsors. "George," remarked Queen Victoria, only came over with the Hanoverian family. However, if the dear chill grows up good and wise, I shall not mind- The boy was finally named George what his name is." "Frederick Ernest Albert-the last name being added at the Queen's instance.

now mourn was not The King whose death we trained for the duties and responsibilities of the throne. His Elder brother: Albert Victor, in the ordinary course

Mest fortunately Edward was de-

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of events would have succeeded Edward VII., but his tragic death in January, 1892, naturally made Prince George the eventual heir to the crown. Thus it was only by chance that the young, naval Commander of H.M.S. Melampus" was called from the quarterdeck to learn new and entirely different set of duties. How valuable those years spent at sea were in shaping the young Prince's character must be recognised by all who stop to think of the absurd artificiality which marks the automary training of monarchs in the making.

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to a

Edward. Prince of Wales fulfilled with kindly com placence his parental responsibilities. The education of

and Vietor

George Albert his two sons, naturally invited careful consideration, and the Prineg dismal them "hil little wish to subject

repetition of his own striet discipline and elaborate training. Personal experience gave him no sympathy with exressive restraint of youthful exuberance on any edurational stage. Young men at college are nat school-

ermined that his own buys choul WHOLESOME ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDS HIS

act suffer as he had. The shap which his sons' training 100k had Queen he mert of originally. Viciorla had her own views on the subject, with which the Prince of Wales naturally found himself in disagreement.

youth.

hot as a

wa:

The Queen wel-working-clas comed a suggesten that her grand sons should go to a"public schul- Wellington College-but the Prince

As one to the manner born. He Queen Victoria's next birthday and entered them us dissented

had reefed sails and swabbed decks May 24 1892, Prince George naval cadets on the "Britannia" training-ship at Dartmouth, Thend fed fires. He had stood at the created Duke of York. Less thar was announced of the Queen argued that a training-shin helm through the tempest and the a year later. on May 3, 1893, the 10 have Duke and Princess Mary at Teck scarcely provided an adequate curaight. He knew what it was to be betrothal deulum. The Prince replied that grimy and perspiring,

The listered hands and Tired feet, an rhe marriage took place in the the sup was expérimental.

carried into effecr-on-hart, he knew what it is to be a Chapel Reyal at St. James's Palace plan: was

working man. It was his majesty's May 17, 1877. He sent his mother

nor had he « boys, and should not be treated as such,'

much faith in a literary education for youths in his sons": station. Edward's own childhood had been a torture. He was surrounded by influences and by ponderous and learned souls. He received lang written explanations from his father and mother on the minutest matters of conduct. He was watched day and night, haunted by guardians and tutors, was not allowed to read novels-not even Sir Walter Scott-and did not play, for he had no play-fellows. His father, held that the Heir-Apparent must be kept aloof from his future subjects, anil must be preserved from the contaminating influence of boys less carefully trained than himself. Throughout his boyhood and youth the young Prince's life was darkered by a tyrannical affection which can fined him in a gilded cage, chafened him with a thousand fatuous restraints, and deafened him with lessons and exhortations. Edward's was a comment on that whole pleasure-loving career sadly mistaken training.

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historic cere-

accordance with cuscomary CHILDHOOD

rocedure. a Privy Council meet- ng was called on May 7th, attend Cabinet, while renuously identified himself withd by members of the Council and the

he Lord Mayor of London, he Tsar's purpose. Hastening to

"It is hem King George sald: He was no the first Eng-since his duties as eventual heir loancy. but

Copenhagen, Stead succeeded in he Crown precluded him from de strongly favouring a Royal 'resi.

With the btaining an audience

ny sorrowful duty to announce to 1 King to belong to the middle

vering himself exclusively to the dence in Ireland, did not see t

to hi way to legislate immediately in the

Fear, who talked eagerly

cu the death of my dearly be Mi

In the But he was the first Navy."

second direction. Queen Victoria classes. George III, was entirely

Its hopes.

cved father, the King." interviewer of 10 the

CREATED DUKE OF YORK To belong

her cld mind, anc

curse of a touching and carnes middle-class.

of Clarence's death remained of

of deep by the hang o The Duke

peech, and in a volce English King

with He neved raised Prince George to the post Lord Cadogan's proposal proved a lead, on his return home, ar-

motion, the new King added:- ion of heir to the Crown after Ed-fruitless as its forerunners, yet the anised a propagandist movement

a father' stranger common expérience.

scheme still lingered in the Prince's throughout England, and and or Prince of Wales,

Just before he ascend- characteriale assurance appealed 1 have lost not only thoughts.

qve, but the affectionate and in among them

spoke .01 to the Prince of Wales to permi fed the throne Edward

head the agitation.imate retalons of a dear friend from some starry social sphere, but ward

as soon as he became his son to

The Duke." wrote the impulsive and adviser King George de- his deputy in Ireland journalist to the Prince, "is theared that to follow in the foot- steps of one so well-beloved would! making.

of York,

declared himmel. only Englishman besides myself to

se the earnest object of his life King, his son and heir, the Duke

retire to

in the Duke's whom the Tsar has spoken freely Lord Cadogan cager

of George V. The coronation avour. The "press" of other busi- on the subject of his desire for

of the Peace Con- and Queen Mary in Westminster But the Prince declined Abbey on June 22nd. 1011. with al the fcrence."

to allow his son to intervene, andthe regal dignity and picturesque in the following July. The evenness on King's Edward's accession the success

question, and i escaped furthe

during kits short deprecated his own or his son's splendeur of this A report, "which" the added") "unique meri: as a King. When he lay outside the sphere of politics compelled postponement of

assoriation with Mr. Stead's move-

mcny, provided a welcome respite) irom political strife over the Par-1 am glad in say is satisfactory," on went down 10 Cornwall he donned was essentially a domestic con-

the averalls of the miner, descendern. But the presence of certain consideration

at Marlborough Felgn.

It Is an interesting theme of meat.

liament Bill for restricting the the boys entrance examination.

for the politlen

TOUR OF EMPIRE

of the House of Lords. power was in House seemed to justify the hope They joined the training-ship, in the pit, and explored the workings wedding guests

or the mine, When he

student whether or no the adop harge of a tutor, the Rev. J. N.

the death of Queer Surveying the cheering crowds as; plan foi. Lancashire, he went through the of the Prince of Wales that the speculation

Before the post Dalton, who retained

tlon of the ministerial

and em. of their mills and the foundries, looking at reign of International peace,

Victoria it had oven arranged that the Royal coach passed through hroughout the period

eye of brought a step nearer by the mar-

the Prince's residence The Kalser was

the Duke and Duchess of York the streets of London, or watching Dalion cok hine machinery with the ducation. Mr.

and hata mechanic and rubbing shoulders age of his son.

deal shape which it first assumed were to make a tour of the Britishche,, festiviles in any big city or obligations seriously,

Empire, and on the accession of in the towns and villages through- an intelligent in 1871 would have allered in any Prince encouraged him in his de- with the operatives in the spirit of represented by his brother, Prisia ployment in Ireland in the prac

Ithe Tsarevitch Nicholas. The Rus-

way the.

subsequent Edward VII. this plan was con- out the country, preetion of uncovenanted Inter-ellow-workman. He vislied the Henry, and the Tsar of Russia by rupilons of their working time. In racecourse only perfunctorily.

in the Ophir in March, 1901, land possible to imagine that these en- divided Mr. was a part of the traditional bustan heir-apparent formed a bro-material Prince, on

people were 1870 the

ness of his calling, and he was not therly attachment to the bride-course of Irish history. The san-Armed. They sailed from. England oreign would have found it. im-

Next guine anticipations of Mr. Glad first cousin,

stone. and Lord Spencer that the ing at Melbourne in May, whenhusiastic

Common-Into bitterly contending political Dalton's advice, refused the Queen's

permanent they opened, the first Urgent request 10 allow the boys' the man to shirk what he congroom-his

His cum-year he was to ascend his father't

that Prince's official and оп enter 10

wealth Parliament. After visiting factions. contact with Ireland would have eave from the "Britannia" In or-ceived to be a duty.

Irish dis-i

New Zealand, they returned home der n stay with her at Balmoral deship with the common people hrane. and

His cousin's blunted the edge of

calling at Canada and Prince was not an elaborate pretence to anxious career of rule which ender

in ghastly. tragedy,

In November! On the following day Jur ver her birthday! The

o gain an end. It sprang from a

loomed lurge affection, at any rate deserves thr

Africa on the way.

Roya often visited the "Britannia"

with genuine fellow-feeling. It was the wedding, always

the Duke was created Prince of 23rd, 1911) there watch the boys' progress.

Weles--the first heir to the Throne procession through the streets.o.| which he professed himself sanerlage of his long apprenticeship imong the few happy memories of political student's attention

the sea, and carried with the later life. Four years later he

who had actually visited the out-London. Their Majesties being ac-

Empire ovet ed, and they remained there for

mpanied by Dominion Fremlers hirst of the practical artificer was writing to his host, the Prince years till the summer of 1879, when'

is done." King of Wales: always lock Know "how it

which he was eventually to rule incian Princes, and units of troop. of the Empire. In-with such pleasure to my charming

posts of that vast he determined in test comprehen-

at Marlborough House 101 sively his falih in the educational George had the mechanic's

terest in the machinery of things.ay

The Russian

Five years later another visit was from all parts made.to India to attend the great among the oversea Premiers pro- George's wedding." value of travel by sending them

care, all a Mr. Dalton's

HIS NAVAL CAREER

Prince proved his tender interest: under

Dürbar at Delhi, and on his re-sent on this historic occasion was world-wide cruise in HMS. "Rac-|

turn to England King George, 3entral Botha. whose activities as On his sons' return from their the fortunes of Prince George

a speech at the Guildhall, London. military leader during the Boet chante,"

thinking. War had caused such anxiety-ta ong cruise in August, 1882 th by coming back to England the

sald"I cannot help year after the marriage to stand] Prince of Wales arranged for fur

from all I have heard and seen the British War Office, but sponsor at the baptism of the first her training on more normal lines

hat" the task of governing India how attendant on His Majesty as the Premier of a loyal and free wil be made easier if, on our part. The younger son. George followedhild-Prince Edward of Wales- his Uncle Alfred's steps, made and now proclaimed King in his

South Africa, we infuse into it a wider elemen

I predict that to he Navy his profession and pass-amented father's place.

of sympathy. through all the normal stages

such sympathy there will be an

May

IN HIS FORMATIVE YEARS The cru'se was planned of great scale. Embarking at Ports mouth on September 17. 1879, Al- pert Victor and George first sem Wes some eight menins in the Indies. In the July following the started on the same ship on a Se ond cruise, which was planned ct.; a larger scale. It lasted fully wo years, and Australia, Japan, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Greece were all included in the finerary.

Thus it came about that during hose formative years when most boys are playing cricket and con- jgating mu ashore.

the late King was tossing about the Seven! Seas, swarming up the yardarnı or strange staking fires, calling at

on.

naval preparation and promo-

Prince George was Arst ap-

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Lie

THIRTY YEARS AGO

be many of There must back

elfort made present generation who have knowledge thirty years ago by the Tsar Russia to establish world-peace. There will be many more who wil. earn for the first time that the are King George was expected. d.

me of the earnest ploneer ad! vocates of international disurma. nent to take a prominent part . Savi cading that movement. ពោយម ន minority which mad

self very audible in England and ad-sewhere, there was small faith

HIS LINK WITH IRELAND In view of Queen Victoria's

the suggestion was clared to HMS. "Canada," com-vanced age.

nade in the early nineties that the munded by Captain Durrani, or

he North American and West In-Irish Viceroyalty should be con- dan statu, and was promoted Sub-Lieutenant.

ponse."

South

in the practical value of the Rus-ever-abundant and genuine res stan project. Bu Great Britain and twenty-five other Powers ac Septed, in terms more or less sym pathetic, the Tsar's invitation tu

erred on a son of the Prince of Wales, and that the young man should permanently reside in Ire-end envoys to the Hague, there to discuss the theme in the follow-i and. In January, 1892, shortly efore the permature death of ineng May. The suggested agenda Juke of Clarence, the Prince of Inaiuded not only the question. Q. Wales entertained a vague proposa.

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Next year the Coronation Dur-1 bar was held at Delhi. Never in had there the history of India

2. splendid display of Jeen such

£5 was pomp and circumstance PLAIN TRUTH SPOKEN

seen at this Durbar, Princes and The speeches of kings are ordin people alike joined in demonstrat- the cotton ing their loyalty to the new Em- his Consort. wool of conventional phrases that peror of India and artly so swathed in when a plain word like this leap. In 1913 the King and Queen re- Jut it has the effect of a blow. turned a visit puld by President On their to England. it was a blow that was needed.. Poincare The disease of an arrogant con-arrival, at Faris they were met by by enthusiastic nto administration of that coun-were y cheered tempt for the Indian had entered the President of the Republic, and

The State functions Ir try. The King saw it, as every-crowds as they drove through the body with open eyes saw it, and streets.

On his return acme he passed through the Roya Naval College at Greenwich and he gunnery and torpedo schools. being promoted to Lieutenant ir 1885. A year later he was appoint-

e identify the Duke with Ireland id to HMS. Thunderer," of th

by making him Viceroy. Some she Mediterranean squadron, and was

years later, a like scheme' was more ubsequently transferred to H.M.S

ully discussed at the urgent in- Dreadnought" "and H.M.S. "Alex-

of the Prince's. felong i.ance he joined the In 1889 andra."

riend, Lord Cadogan, who was at lagship of the Channel Squadron

he time Lord-Lieutenant of Ire "Northumberland", and ir

command o and, Lord Cadogan pressed was in torpedo-boat No. 79 for the navi proposal that the then Duke of

Meeting the Duke of York (King In 1890 he was put fork (later King George) should nanceuvres.

chief home nake Ireland hla In command of the gunboat H.M.S.

on the occasion of the funeral of Thrush" for service on the North the permanent residence in Ire- George) at Copenhagen in October. and of both a Lord-Lieutenant American and West Indian station.

int a member of the Royal family their maternal grandmother, the After his promotion a Comman-

would mean (the Prince pointed Queen of Denmark, the Tsar en- 1er in 1891 he commissioned H.M.S

the command but to Lord Cadogan "two Kings deavoured to enlist his sympathies

Neither he nor in a crusade against war. Mean-ward contracted an illness that Paris as King Edward. "Melampus," which he relinquished on the death Brentford.”

setting rid of the Lord-Lieuten journalist, his brother, Albert Victor, the Lord Cadogan saw any difficulty in while Duke of Clarence, in January 1852

hai year

ports in far-off lands. learning the tough lessons of the sea, and scimi ing the wholesome comradeship of plain men. It was a hard school: but no king ever had a better.HM.S.

with face to face brought him realities. He saw the meaning of duty and discipline, learned to res- pect those who labour with their hands, and entered into the of the ecmmun people;

BELONGED TO THE MIDDLE CLASS

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In the same way, King George's on the tastes were a "comment more wholesome atmosphere which childhood and surrounded his

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isarmament but also the mercifu relaxation of the laws of war and

The Prince creation of efficient machinery arbitration Wales, despite his desire for peace as for once In substantial accord

ne said so in unmistakable words their honour were, as the "Times" with his nephew, the Kaiser, ir questioning whether much" woule And the effect was instantaneous remarked, conducted with a dig- some of the Tsar's scheme, but A distinguished Indian, member of nified splendour which no Court"in the Viceroy's Council declared Europe could excel. At one of the that as the result of that speech banquets the President observed

marked the latter's zeal was unaffected by

and happy change that this was the 10th anniversary the prevalent doubts.

of the of the conclusion of the Anglo- attitude me over the

1ts changes," but the Anglo-Indian towards the Indian French Entenite. The decade had

remained firm, friendship So powerful stiil is the plain truth brought

In the spring of 1910 King Ed- King George was as welcome in spoken from a high place.

an enterprising English proved fatal, and Prince George

Mr. W. T. Stead was proclaimed ruler in his stead.

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