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AN unusual interest centres. in the Accession of bachelor King to the Throne of England.

There have been few un- married kings in our his- tory, though some of our greatest monarchs have not married until they were on the throne..

In some instances the un- married state of the ruler has become of interest not only to the country but to the whole world.

In the case of Queen Eliza- beth, for instance, her refusal to také a partner was undoubt- edly one of the corner-stones of England's greatness. She play- one ed off rival claimanta against the other with such skill that almost to the day of her death all Europe was ang ling for the prize.

William II (Rufus) was one of the few bachelors and the fiery warrior who subdued the Scots and colonised the northern marches. He was killed cidentally in middle age before he had made the matrimonial

ac-

The Bachelor Kings of

alliance

по A

His Majesty Edward VIII, Britain's Bachelor monarch.

that would have Valois not only did this end the long war with France but it was strengthened his position.

His successor and younger the result of a strong attraction. brother, Henry I., a bachelor The splendid young monarch when he came to the throne at was in love with his wife, whom the age of 32. mude a most im- he took home to be crowned by portant alliance with the Prin- herself in Westminster cess Matilda, granddaughter of symbol and gage of the peace. Henry VII., one of our great Edmund Ironside and therefore

he ascended the throne after the heiress of the old English fine, est kings, was a bachelor when Norman and Saxon victory of Bosworth. He was THIS royal alliance made mar- crowned alone when nearly 30 ringes between Norman and years of age. Had he been English popular and caused married our history might have been different, for it was his Henry 1 to be termed "the realliance with Elizabeth of York founder of the English line." Through this marriage the blood blended with that of the Nor-

England

throughout the country. He probably died from an infec- tlon; and had he received skil- ful medical treatment-then un- obtainable-he might have wished to marry Mary Queen of Scots, and to rule both king- doms wisely and well.

His premature death delayed the union of the Crowns until the Accession of Mary's son, James 1. of England, who was. crowned King James VI. of Scotland on his mother's abdi- cation, when ho was but a year old, and certainly a bachelor.

The question of his marriage opened up. long and anxious speculations and tormented his mother during the last years of her captivity. Two years after her execution he married the fair and gay Anne of Denmark, thus bringing a Queen of Eng- land for the first time since the conquest from the country of the Vikings. ancestors, Later that land was to give us the beloved Queen Alexandra.

our

Charles and His Bride HIS son, Charles I., did not

marry until after he had be- come King. It was as a reign- ing monarch that he went to the beautiful Henrietta Maria, Canterbury to greet his bride,

who brought as her dowry the noble blood of Bourbon and Medici, and great personal hap- piness to her adoring husband.

| Chongkong Chelegrapu. NOTES OF THE of the ancient Brilish kings tagenet with that of Tudor-so mained unmarried for two years

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1936.

ARMS TRAFFIC REVELATIONS

in

mans.

that united the House of Plan- that, again, the blood of the old line was continued in that of the new, itself a branch from the same stem.

Henry VIII was contracted to Catherine of Aragon on his Accession, but not married until a few months later.

Charles II. returned to his kingdom a bachelor, and re- before his splendid nuptials with Catherine of Braganza, who brought as her dowry Dun- kirk and Tangiers.

the

Henry III. came to the throne BRUTALISING BLIGH

as a child and married Eleanor

Though the first two Georges The two American authors who of Provence after he had attain- gave us "Mutiny on the Bounty."ed his majority; the Court of

possessed kingly qualities and

Sea,"

and this bachelor king was very

were of the royal British line. their foreign educations render- "Men Against the

firat splendid and his nuptials to the

ed them alien to the English, French Princess extremely mag-

The Courted King but the last King (George III.) As in the case of the U.S."Pitcairn's Island," in the

(later nificent, attracting crowds of Senate Committee's investiga-work depicted Lieutenant

Edward VI.. was of the lor, was educated in this coun- tions, so with the Royal Com-Admiral) William Bligh as a brute, foreigners. For weeks London THE bachelor state of King to come to the throne a bache- greatest value to, the nation, his try and early declared that he mission sitting in London on in the second elevated him to some was the scene of feasting and Arms Traffic, interesting

re-thing near a saint, and in the third pageantry.

Richard II.'s romantic marri- hand being competed for by all "gloried in the name of Briton,” Extremely good-looking, sin- velations have been made of abandoned him entirely. The film'

five years on the throne.

was his father's wish that he cere and high-minded, the young the evils implicit in the private version of the adventurous voyage age took place when he had been the diplomats of Europe. It

of H.M.S. Bounty and the epic

Henry V. was perhaps the should marry the little Queen King was very popular and his trade manufactura and

struggle of Bligh and his loyal men most brilliant of our bachelor of Scots, herself a great-great- marriage with Charlotte of armaments. One of the most in an open launch over 3,600 miles kings: a great soldier, an able granddaughter of Henry VII., Mecklenburg-Strelitz was striking of these is that the of perilous occan, stressed rather diplomat, just, chivalrous, very and thus unite the two branches occasion of great rejoicings and It was then nearly a hundred foreign investments of one the brutal side of the character of handsome and religious. Henry of the Royal House of England festivities in London.

The Scots, fearful of losing years since the marriage of a British group include 25 per Bligh, and hardly did him justice. was in everything the nation's and that country with Scotland, cent. of the capital of aThe books mentioned above are not ideal, and his popularity was in- Japanese firm manufacturing only based upon facts, but they creased by his refusal to enter their independence, resisted, reigning Sovereign, and this which into any merely political marri and the King's marriage was was one of the happiest events ordnance and

shipbuilding follow faithfully the log

Bligh himself kept on the Bounty age. He was crowned alone arranged with a French Prin- in the history of the British

with great magnificence and cess, but all such projects were Monarchy.-

the material and

The Queen possessed those another firm

and later during the open-launch

soon after undertook the war defeated by his, death on

womanly virtues and that high interested in iron and steel

Even in the struggle to Timor.

with France, where he gained threshhold of manhood.

This bachelor king was a conception of her office which plants; 21 per cent. of the capi- first of the trilogy, "Mutiny on the much glory. tai of a Spanish company main- Bounty," they have not been just For seven years England was charming figure-a clever musi- became a tradition with British ly engaged in armament and to Bligh. He was a terrible dis- without a Queen (the King's cian, an accomplished scholar, royal ladies, and the King's con- shipbuilding work, and 22 per ciplinarian, belleving in the rule of mother had died long before his and a keen amateur astronomer, duct during a long reign ensur-

numerous grammar schools which it has never lost. cent. of the issued capital of fear, but he had no fear himself. Accession), and when the King His name is commemorated in ed a respect for the Crown another company engaged in the Moreover, he was a born leader of married the lovely Catherine de manufacture of armaments and men, could inspire them to endure: commercial work; and 13% per incredible suffering and according cent. of the issued capital of an to the code of the day was prob ably little worse than scores of important Bmanian arma-

on the other commandera ments concern This evidence

Splendid as the film may be, it

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out during the inquiry is that we are not going to wave the flag it is customary for winning and accuse Hollywood of slander- firms tendering to pay some ing a British Admiral, or anything compensation to, the losers, ake that. We wish to point out circumstance which called forth only that Bligh was no fictitious) a remark by a member of the character, but one very much res- Commission that in these cir-pected, if feared, in his time. His cumstances he could never be memory still deserves respect. convinced that the competition | ~-~-~-~

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is genuine. On the question of which would create a feeling of "entertaining and palm-greas- security in the world. All ing," the representative of a these revelations boar on the British group contented himself view of the private manufac-| with saying that in such mat-ture of arms expressed by Lord ters armaments were no excep- Cecil some time buck, when he tion to any other foreign trade, referred to the foreign trade adding that agents made therein keeping civil war alive to persons securing in various parts of the world payments orders for their firms and ex- and declared that "the plain. plaining that such payments do truth is that in almost all the not appear in the books of the principal countries of the world firms, but come out of the we have great industrial and Reference financial organisations whose agent's commission.

WATS was also made to possible prosperity depends on obstruction to armaments firms and rumours of war." What- by Genova, "or some other ever may be the case for fancy convention," to use the Government control of the tra words of one witness, to which ffic in arms, it is beyond Dame Rachel Crowdy retorted question that big armaments

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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Oh, is that so? Well, If that's the way you feel about it, I won't ever correct him. My boy can whip your kid any day."

'PLANE

TAKES OFF FROM FURIOUS AND VANISHES

AN airplane with two

men

aboard took off from the air- craft carrier Furious last month, and vanished.

The Furious was carrying out wireless exercises with aircraft over the Channel and was about 20 miles south-west of St. Cather ine's Point, Isle of Wight, at the time.

Machines which had taken part In the exercises afterwards made for the R.A.F. base at Gosport. All but one arrived safely.

In the missing airplane word. Flying-officer P. H. Agard-Bulter, R.A.F, whose home in in Surrey, and Telegraphist T. A. Hunter. R.N., of Portsmouth..

Channel Search

The Furious, the cruiser Coven- try, destroyers and aircraft made a widespread search of the Chan- nel bewteen Portland and Spit- head. All available machines at the Gosport R.A.F. base wore sent. up.

Jersey Airways machines were asked to keep a look out.

At night destroyers shone their searchlights on the waters.

Operators at Portsmouth wire- less station slood by, ready to pick up any algnals and to flash them. on.

No nows came of Flying-officer Agard-Bulter or his companion.g An official at Portsmouth Dock yard said, "We can only presume thit the machine dived into the Be and wank."