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AN unusual interest centres in the Accession of a 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 take a partner was undoubt- edly one of the corner-stones of England's greatness. She play- rival claimants one ed off 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 ac- cidentally in middle age before he had made the matrimonial

BRUTALISING BLIGH

The Bachelor Kings of

His Majesty Edward VIII, Britain's Bachelor monarch.

alliance 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 .. a bachelor The splendid young monarch when he came to the throne at was in love with his wife, whom the age of 32, made a most im he took home to be crowned by portant alliance with the Prin herself in Westminster as B cess Matilda, granddaughter of symbol and gage of the peace. Edmund Ironside and therefore heiress of the old English line.

mans.

England

throughout the country. He probably died from an infec- ton; 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 I. of England, who was crowned King James VI. of Scotland on his mother's abdi- cation, when he 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 Later that land was to give us our ancestors, the Vikings. the beloved Queen Alexandra.

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

come King.

marry until after he had be Henry VII, one of our great-

It was as a reign- est kings, was a bachelor when ing monarch, that he went to he ascended the throne after the Canterbury to greet his bride, the beautiful Henrietta Maria, victory of Bosworth. He was crowned alone when nearly 30 who brought as her dowry the noble blood of Bourbon and years of age. Had he been. married our history might have Medici, and great personal hap been different, for it was his piness to her adoring husband.. alliance with Elizabeth of York Charles II. returned to his that united the House of Flan kingdom a bachelor, and re- tagenet, with that of Tudor-so mained unmarried for two years

Norman and Saxon THIS royal alliance made mar- riages between Norman and English popular and caused Henry I to be termed "the re founder of the English line." Through this marriage the blood NOTES OF THE DAY of the ancient British kings

blended with that of the Nor- that, again, the blood of the old before his splendid nuptials · ·

line was continued in that of with Catherine of Braganza, Henry III. came to the throne the new, itself a branch from. who brought as her dowry Dun-

kirk and Tangiers. as a child and married Eleanor the same stem. The two American authors who of Provence after he had attain- Henry VIII, was contracted. Though the first two Georges gavo us "Mutiny on the Bounty."ed his majority; the Court of to Catherine of Aragon on his possessed kingly qualities and "Men

and this bachelor king was very Accession, but not married until were of the royal British line, Against the Sea,"

first splendid and his nuptials to the a few months later.

'their foreign educations render- As in the case of the U.3. "Pitcairn's Island," in the

French Princess extremely mag-

ed them alien to the English, Senate Committee's investiga-work depicted Lieutenant (later nificent,, attracting crowds of

The Courted King but the last King (George III.) 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- mission sitting in London on in the second elevated him to some was the scene of feasting and Edward VI. was of the lor, was educated in this coun- Arms Traffic, interesting re-thing near a saint, and in the third pageantry,

greatest value to the nation, his try and early declared that he velations have heen made of abandoned him entirely. The Alm Richard II.'s romantic marri- hand being competed for by all "gloried in the name of Briton." the evils implicit in the private version of the adventurous voyage age took place when he had been the diplomats of Europe. It

Extremely good-looking, sin- five years on the throne.

was his father's wish that he cero and high-minded, the young manufacture, and

of H.M.S. Bounty and the epic,

Henry V. was perhaps the should marry the little Queen King was very popular and his 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 inunch over 3,600 miles kings: a great soldier, an able granddaughter of Henry VII., Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the striking: of these is that the of perilous ocean, stressed rather diplomat, just, chivalrous, very and thus unite the two branches occasion of great rejoicings and foreign investments of one the brutal side of the character of handsome and religious. Henry of the Royal House of England festivities in London.

group include 25 per Bligh, and hardly did him justice. was in everything the nation's and that country with Scotland. It was then nearly a hundred cent. of the capital of a The books mentioned above are not ideal, and his popularity was in- The Scots, fearful of losing years since the marriage of a Japanese firm manufacturing only based upon facts, but they creased by his refusal to enter their independence, resisted, reigning Sovereign, and this shipbuilding follow-faithfully the log which Into any merely political marri--and the King's marriage was was one of the happiest events crowned alone arranged with a French Prin- in the history of the British Bligh himself kept on the Bounty age. He was firm interested in iron and steel and later during the open-launch with great magnificence and cess, but all such projects were Monarchy.

The Queen possessed those plants; 21 per cent. of the capi- struggle to Timor. Even in the soon after undertook the war defeated by his death on were

with France, where he gained threshhold of manhood. first of the trilogy, "Mutiny on the much glory.

womanly virtues and that high tal of a Spanish company main-Bounty," they have not been just

This bachelor king was a conception of her office which ly engaged in armament and to Bligh. He was a terrible dis- without a Queen (the King's clan, an accomplished scholar, royal ladies, and the King's con- For seven years England was charming figure-a clever musi- became a tradition with British shipbuilding work, and 22 per ciplinarian, believing in the rule of mother had died long before his and a keen amateur astronomer. duct during n long reign ensur 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 numerous grammar schools which it has never lost. manufacture of armaments and men, could inspire them to endure commercial work; and 131⁄2 per incredible suffering and according cent. of the issued capital of an to the code of the day was prob- important Rumanian

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'PLANE

OFF

TAKES

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 were Flying-ofllcor P. H. Agard-Bulter, R.A.F., whose home is in Surrey, and Telegraphist T. A. Hunter, R.N., of Portsmouth,

Channel Search

The Furious, the cruiser Coven- try, destroyers and wircraft made a widespread. search of the Chan- net bowteen Portland and Spit-. head. All available machines at tho Gosport R.A.F. bone were sent up.

Jersey Airways machines were asked to keep a look out.

At night destroyers shone their searchlights on the waters. Di

Operators at Portsmouth wire- loss station stood by, ready to pick up any signals and to flash them on,

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No news came of Flying-officer. Agard-Bulter or his companion.

An official at Portsmouth Dock- yard said, "We can only presunts that the machine dived into the soz and. Bank !!·