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Elizabeth Philip

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The Princess and Lieut. Mountbatten photographed in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace on the day they were engaged. Below: a fine study of the Princess as she rode side-saddle to the ceremony of Trooping the Colours in honour of the King's Birthday

A TOUR OF THEIR HONEYMOON HOME

BY MILTON SHULMAN

UST outside Romsey, Hants, on the road that runs. Into Southampton, is a long red-brick wall broken by two large black iron gates. The gates, which are not locked, guard; a winding country lane flanked on either sido by majestic cedars and chestnuts and ever- greens.

About half a mile on, at the end of the Inne, stands a grey brick house dominated by four graceful white Grecian columns. Time has left its maok rn both the grey facade and the white columns.

This is Broadlands; the honeymoon wing is on the left.) Further recent photographs of Princess Elizabethy show her with the Queen during a visit to the Homo Fleet in the Clyde, chatting with Lieut. Mountbatten and arriving at a recont civic function in London

This is Broadlands--home of lawn, runs down to the mean- Lord and Lady Mountbatten dering River Test, in which where Princess Elizabeth and trout, salmon, and pike abound. Lieutenant Philip. Mountbatten will apond part of their honey-

moon.

:.

The closed doors

BUT the Red Cross ambulance parked in the semi-circular roadway in front of the house, and the wheel chairs just inside the doorway, testify to the fact

that Broadlands has seen many changes since it was built about 250 years ago,

In the nearby stables are! seven polò ponics, kept ft and trim for riding by Arthur Birch, who has been a groom. with the Mountbatten family for 18 years.

Only five of the ponies have names-Golondira, May Ling, Chiclta, Victory and Patrick- Licut. Philip Mountbatten's favourite is 13-year-old Patrick; Princess Elizabeth will probably ride one of the seven-year-olds,

For most of this lovely man- sion, which was once the family seat of the great Lord Palmer. not yet named. ston and which numbered King Edward VII. among its guests, is now a hospital.

In 1942 two-thirds of the house-about 40 rooms-were converted into an annex of the Royal South Hants Hospital.

Today its 72 beds are filled with serious surgical and medi- cal cases, with a staff of 25 nurses, doctors and orderlies looking after them.

Familiar scenes

ALL this will be very familiar to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, for when his uncle and aunt were here Broadlands was often his home, and most of his week- ends were spent here.

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It will not all be entirely new to Princess Elizaboth cither. for only last year she went to At one end of the fresh. Broadlands as a bridesmaid to antiseptic-smelling corridors of Lord and Lady Mountbatten's, the hospital are closed grey daughter Patricia, when she doors. If you opened any one was married to Lord Brabourne. of these doors-no docs-you would find yourself in the home of Lord Mount

batten.

one

Seven polo ponies

ever

There is plenty of land for riding and much to see, for the

Mountbatten estate is 6,000 acres,

Almost all of it is devoted to farming, and in the cottages IN spite of its nearness to the that dot the grounds live about

comings and goings of the sick, 60 people who work

on the and the hundreds of visitors land. who visit them on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, the west wing of Broadlands, where the Mountbattens live, is strangely quiet and peaceful.

Up to the end of October, taken no decision had been about which of the 20 odd rooms in the west wing would be given to the Princess and her A rather less pretentious husband during their stay at Since there are doorway than the main one Broadlands. faces a carpet of green lawn only two servants in the house surrounded by geometrically at present, it is expected the clipped yew hedges. A foun- Princess will bring some of her tain dances and gurgles in the own staff with her.'" centre. Behind the house a wide expanse of sloping green

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

MONTSOREAU stands by the sale

Loire, close to where it joins the Sultan," think I've seen mere £14 7s. 51⁄2d.

hand repeatedly. "No," she replied, rather dashing, wart; they cost the Vienne, the river of Rabe- you in a cake somewhere," said the lals and of Chinon. It is the Swede. Count Eggstrom, Intending The City and the crisis countryside of St Martin, and to make an unimportant joke. "I'm its white wines should be drunk sure you haven't." said the Sultana. "I've never been in a cake." Caque,

of d'Or at Montsoreau.

on a summer's day in the Lion of course, Le the Turkish word for

u prison. Later the Sultunu sald, "Who was that turnip?". Madame's hat.

THE

Why all this? Because a picture of the village has recalled to me the day when first I came there, on my way to Chinon, singing loudly the

Saumur.

Maison Richelieu,

a

GLOBAL defleit of £575,648,- 329,874,106,381,918 can obviously be met only by an increased diver nion of interlocking overall exports

Excited patients

IN the hospital the wards have

·been a ferment of excite- ment.

In the women's ward, the windows of which overlook the River Test, Mrs Margaret Green, of Swaythling, was torn beta een her desire to get well. and her hopo of seeing the bridal couple when they arrive.

to meet deflutionary world purchas- "I'd love to see them, but I Ing power, Capital development, by don't want to be kept here that the pooling of frozen dollars at once,

and the subsequent release of steri- long," she said. newing, will tend to stabilise itself.

Bataht-Al-Bashim

song you may still hear at tile Art West nd hat-shop, upened its unless inflationary measures lower

Mrs Mabel Fox, of Eastleigh, festival called the Assembler des Lilas n Saint-Hilaire, whence come chromium doors recently, under the the tempo of Industrial recovery. who told me she was "terribly the gleaming, sparkling wines of, direction, apparently, of Captain Watch Kamirs and Madyam Whites. excited" about it all, has been

Foulenough. The hals shown seemed

so busy reading all the papers to be very small and unusual. Further misunderstandings "Fashion,"

and scanning the pictures that said the Captain, must

He said he was a Aloor and that she has forgotten her illness. crisis in our his name was Heli, JERE in another version of the adapt itself to this HE

famous story, as told in the affairs." Most of the hats were' tiny

(News item.) And the town of Romsey It' Fugger Letters. The Sultana Bibshi-round bits of felt about the size of

Some had a hen's NE of the Yorkshire moors, self is no less eager and expec ki was on a visit to Holland House, a wrist-watch.

presume, as Charlotte Bronte where an

illiterate Swede, was feather stuck jauntily at the side. presented to her. "Sq you are the Worn over one eye they gave the absent-mindedly said to Abd-el-Kit, tant over the news.

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