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It was a quiet affair

last time, too

by BERNARD WICKSTEED

ine

THIE excitement over the

wedding got royal thinking about the time Queen Victoria got married. History is always more interest ing when you can link it up with current affairs.

Princess Elizabeth's great great-grandmother was married in London on a cold, foggy, wet Monday in February 107 years ago. The ceremony was not in Westminster Abbey but in the chapel at St James's Palace. since bombed by the Germans,

why be set a fashion by fitting out the windows of Buckingham Palace with the less inflammable Notting- ham lacu.

Wha

Women wept in the streels when be let, and his grandmother carried away fainting. The expedi tlon to England storted from a pub in Gotha called the Last Shining. Two days later the Prince without a fortune heard that Parlament had cut his proposed allowance.

was fer- The Channel crossing rible. Albert, his father, and his brother were sick all the way over. As they approached Dover they were told that the pirateads were lined with people waiting to wel- Prince staggered up on feck the bridegroom. still looking green, hawed tu flanere's people as graciously

You might think that all the crowned heads in Europe would and, be at an affair like that.

but his apart from the bride there as he could in the circumstances. weren't any. The world was at peace then. and England so sure of herself that there wasn't much need for glamorous shows of friendship.

There were also few Tories prt- sent. At that time Queen Victoria did not like Tories. She blamed them for cutting Albert's marriage allowance from £50,000 to £30.000 and wouldn't ask them to the wed- ding..

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Albert, as you know, was a Ger-

prince,

first and Victoria's cousin. At the age of three his nurse told him that if he was a good buy und grew up into a nice man he would marry the Queen of Eng-

land.

She wasn't entirely right. He cer-

tainly married the Queen, but he wasn't always a good boy. Once he led the pockets of a princess's cont, with soft cheese, and another time e mude some stink bombs of sulphuretted hydrogen and dropped then in the pit of his local theatre. The people in the pit didn't get their own back, but the princess did. She put a basket of frogs in his bed,

Victoria first met him when he was 18 and she 17. and she said afterwards that he had, a delighđu! cxterior and

that every quality could be desired to render her 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. perfectly happy. She probably hadn't heard about the cheere and

the stink bombs.

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She met him WHEN they reached London the

W party wcre inledirected, and

one

drove to Buckingham Palace by the back streets Instead of along the route where the crown was waiting. They arrived at 4.30 in the atter- noon, and were met at the door by the Queen. Half an hour inter the Prince was naturalised by the Lord Chancellor. No

was wasting any time. because this was Satur- day and the wedding was fixed for one clock sharp on Monday.

The early hour was an innovation. Before then of Queen Victoria's, royal weddings had been solemnised The change was in the evening.

made for the beneßt of the public. but it probably had the wholeheart ed approval of Albert, who hated late parties.

fact thaist It was a well-known since childhood

he could not keep awake much

after ten. Once at he fell off chair-fast dinner asleep.

Albert was dressed for the wed- ding as a British feld-marshal.

The Queen wore a white satio trimmed with £1,000 worth own of Honiton lace. The train was 50 it look 12 attendants hravy that to carry it.

of

honeymoon,

To

the

COAL DEPO

"Lovoly woathor wo'ro having lately, aren't

wo?"

Trevor Evans sums up the qualities of the

Chancellor who has gone

The

Dalton Touch

helped, but-

men

for

They have been tragedics Brain this year, when he failed until too late to realise the speed at which the American Loun wak

dwindling and the disastrous effect There were times when Dalton's of the convertibility clause on this imperious mamer seemed forbidding nailon's resourers, to some of the wineares who up- To the public, his rervice as Pre- peared before him.

sident of the Board of Trade is best They were invariably

and remembered for the introduction of women who had been without jobs thes rationing. Iie first said that

Most of them heil Just patches were patriotic. hope. for years.

Their stories "hot" Dalton. FIL subsequent championship ef them dispelled any doubts about his genuine concern,

She said 'obey' ALTHOUGH it was she who had A proposed marriage in the first place, when it came to the ceremony Victoria promised to obty. In the chapel Abert was the more nervous with his She proposed

UGH DALTON'S resigna- the Socialists in the distressed areas. the two and fidgeted

TREE years

tion will shock his party, of the early thirtles. they gloves and Prayer-book. when

He went on a tour of all down Afterwards, when they were drie I prophesy that he will and-out districts. He was the head were both 20. Albert came 10ing to Windsor for their three-day England again. After four days of

the rain stopped and soon be back in office, not only of a commission of three. banqueting and dancing she called the sun came out, which gave rise because of his ability, but be- him to her room and proposed.

"Qucen's cause Expression

of the support he com- She and to do it herself, she after-

weather," used by vicars and mands.

stul ward told her aunt, because a mere

organisers of village fetes for days German prince could never have

Ability and sunport form one that start badly and end well. proposed to her, the Queen of Eng-

Next day the Times (eight page", his fatinelive fentures, price 5d.) had a 30.000-word reportThey do not always go together They were married at 21, and the

of the wedding, all under une sing -

amon the Socialists, Prine2 who lived at Galha in Ger- column headline. many, has quite a business getting

Dalton has managed to be an But, wedding or no welding, the to the wedding. They made Mes world went on much the same as "intellectual" who gained the serschmiths at Gotra in the Jus, war_

war wual In

In Ve same issue of and the bombers that raided Lon- Tines were 1.000-words about theespect and admiration of the

bule of the trade unions. It has not been easy.

Pro fassor Laski never quite suc cried in this. Sir Stafford Crinns hos because his terity and religions convictions toring manner cartier in the day. are understood by the deep, nickname of "The Booming Bittern." elaimed that he knew where he Nonconformist traditions of the His whispers could be heard yurds was. workers.

Some of the workless he away

Of course, he had the advantage But Dalton's secret his friend he called them "Comrade." Dalton only a minority of his hearers under-

talked to were uncomfortable when of specialising in o subject

don

n the war before that, but fancy Commission, a "respectable Albert had to travel by merch and cheeschuonger"

wanted

young

packet boat, I took liam 12 Lay5. aalstant of goud dress. ana full At his farewell party the mustin board and tod'ngs were advertised curtains caught fire, which may be at 12. Gd. # werk.

he is.

Miss Pom's

are your

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

be used for anything. Lucky I kept a second bottle for mending the roof of that potting shed. Mimsie Słopcorner

Kitchen Rally

nextness,

(Try the new all-brim trilby with no crown.)

aus-

And that friendliness proved o be his Imporary downfall.

He

has been like that most of his life I have known It often during the past 20 years,

+

Laughs

Mastery

thi

Dalion after formal sessions had IF his judgment was wrong ended, would buy Leer for the ex-year his party-and-many-out- miners, ex-shipyard workers, ax side -never failed to rejoice at his vers, and ex-textile operatives who performances on major parliamentary dropped in to see him during the censions. evenings of these tours, and he would

His mastery of his brief, his effee- boom

his explanation

for his hea ve simplification of ceoromle mat-

azzti his energy, tore.

with its His resonant voice gained him the

thumping. despatch-box

all pru-

which

wasn't. If there was any "alde" il sicom. 'That was much of his was on their part.

strength.

His explaration that he talked It remains FQ. fle is regarded as and questioned as he did because of far too able by the overwhelming the years he had spent as a lecturer mujority of his party to be left out in the London School of Economies --was offered simply. it explained all.

He thoughi

Optimism

of "welling out" to the other side

for

Ioffee.

Again, that does not mean that Dalton is universally, popular with the Socialists. Not one of the "Big Five" is in that position. The "sack-

Arthur Ing" of

Greenwood has

Hays old Watercress, Demestie

·Snibbo in short supply, month." What will my young muster rub on his feel when he returns from potting grouse?...There Maison Richelieu

THE felt (purchased from an old Well. Watercress, not such a dusty man at the lower end of the bak Nineteen birds and a parson's Fulham-road) is running out. The AT one time his friendliness was The sworkers hat. Any Shibbo

misunderstood. going?...

..Yes. hats are getting smaller and smaller. sir, we have one precious bottle in To avoid having to go out of busi-thought Dalton was "talking down" the cellar. I was keeping it for ness, Foulenough is having a dozen to them.

They could not understand how the DALTON has never been suspected bruised all who remain at the top. coming-out

party....r so made out of a bit of linoleum- Fetch it up, Watercress....Yes, sir, torn up from the scullery floor. He son of a canon who attended Queen in politics. True, in the great col-

And now ... Castle could feet tired?....Feet calls them Pompadour cloches, "Are Victoria at Windsor

be blowed, Watercress. I want a stiff they wearing them in Paris?" asked understand them; or why he should lapse of 1931, when Ramsay Mac- Donald formed his coalition, Dalton, drink....Well, well, Shibbo

a tedious can

creature. "They

were want to except for his own advan-

as Under-Secretary

Forelan PRESENT criticism of Dalton with- down direct from the Rue de la Paix tuge.

Affairs, was comparatively junior In the party is due not so much lust night," replied the Captain. They were suspicious. Humorous

Minister.

to any personal weaknesses of his, "The Vicomtesse de la Sentine e not help.

de stories, alleged to be about him, did

But he stood firmly by the more but to the secrecy of the Cabinet Vice has ordered three by telephone

The one most widely told, and prominent leaders who decided to over the steel issue. AVRS ringing. "Yes, Yes.

It is believed that Dolton was one give up office. At the same time, he Mason Richelieu. Ah, Princess. which lasted longer than any other, get very close to those trade union of the leaders in favour

of the leaders-notably

of Ernest Bevin and postponement

nationalisation. "WE are just good friends," said trust I hear you well. Certainly. A was this:

When Dalton was a small boy, Walter Citrine--who Mr T. Cleverley Grampound. Pompadour cloche. I'll reserve one.

felt they had Here again he was nearer the unlons them. Goodbye, Queen Victoria placed her hand on

and thun the Sociallst COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "SHOW-OFF" Mayor of Sopping Overcote, when There's a rush on

been ignored by MacDonald

extremists; but He yelled. tedious his head. interviewed.

The old think Miss Slop- Princess." No wonder the

Snowden. He has not to touch that does not endear kim to the winced and murmured:

Lit Wing. corner," he added, "the very essence creature bought one for £19 3s, 83. Queen of English womanhood. She is do Marginal note

What a dreadful voice-Just like with the trades unions since.

Dalton's stock rose with his war Whatever happens, seeing cye to ing a big Job." Mimsie, who wDS

jobs. Ye in the first of these, as eye with the unions is not a bad resting of the Gravel-diggers" Arms

It got the laugha But it also Minister of Economic Warfare, he thing for a politician out of office. after her exertions as Miss Stagger-world in 73 hours had put back planted the suspicion that here was betrayed the same weaknesses that ed Schedules, said: "It is awfully his watch 74 hours on starting, he un intruder from another world. In kind of the mayor. He is so nice, would have been back where he those days that was a handicap. A real gentleman. He asked me to storied. As it is now known be Queen Boadicea in the Sopping there is no such thing as time, this Overcote Pageant of Old Britain, would have been a legitimate, offietai but I don't know if I can. I'm Miss record of a much more starting Austerity. Pudding at the British kind.

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