PACE FIVE
NEWS
OF THE DAY IN PICTURES
FROM FAR AND NEAR
Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 1936.
HAPPENINGS AS SEEN BY
THE CAMERA'S EYE
THE LIFE OF KING EDWARD VIII IN PICTURES
When King Edward VIII and the Princess Royal wore children this is how they looked. Princess Mary is now the Viscountess Lascelles.
Two further studies of King Edward VIII as a child.
King Edward VIII at the age of sixteen, when he was invested Prince of Wales, the Silver Jubilee of which lie would
have colebrated this year.
The Prince and Princess of Wales (the late King George V and Queen Mary) (1906) and their alx Children, King Edward VIII is on the right.
Our new Ruler is air-minded and possesses three private 'planes. Despite his age, (he will be 42 next June) King Edward still retains the youthful characteristics that made him the "Handsome Prince" of the Empire.
His Majesty the King inspecting French Poilus on the Somme Battlefield in 1917.
King Edward is a leading sportsman. The above photo- graph, taken some years ago, shows him at golf, a game at which he excels.
King Edward as we know him to-day, serious minded and deeply interested in his Empire. This photograph was taken
in Geneva during a recent meeting of the League.
A historic moment in the life of Britain's new Ruler. The late King George and Queen Mary, standing on either side of the youthful heir to the Throne at the Castle gateway after his Investiture as Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle in 1911,
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