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The Princess awaits the day

And a room in

Clarence House

is prepared

BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT

N the second floor of Clarence House a large, airy room overlooks the pleasant gardens of St. James's Palace and the long green stretch of the Mall.

There, where the noise of not very distant traffic is softly muted, will be born the second child of Princess Elizabeth. Sir William Gilliatt, the gynaecologist, renowned for the accuracy of his forecasts, has fixed the date between August 10 and 14.

Prince Charles and his mother,

William Gilliatt

father

had :1 chemist'o shop On Wide Bargate, Boston, Liuvola- shire.

There, behind the counter, young Gilliant was inspired with the desire to become a doctor. Widowed while her son was a buy, his mother ran the chemist's shop herself and sent Wellingborough her

College, where his old houses muster still remembers the boy

Sitting On The Fence

By... Nathaniel Gubbins

Tanke of gold fali nte to bo installed in the old people's heme at Thelford, Norfolk. The Matron, tre F. Tuck, believes the calours and movements of exercice her

the SENTY Will mienta

them think,

and make

HAT thinkin

George?

So'm Of,

on

Fish.

Pretty, ain't they?

Áb.

Lairely, too.

Ah,

Rackon that thur bly mus female.

Hackon co?

A

7

All Remoinda me of the nalfe

She do?

Wolfe's been dead and buried these thart year.

She ain't missed much, No. That thur big su's, the living spitting image of the wolfe, Fat in the middle, enes a-poppl and jares a-warkin day and night.

She's a-chasin them other fish now,

Just loke the woife. Allas un the go, uppin und poppin about. She won't give that thur little un no peace.

Er 'usband, Joikely.

Now she's got a-hold on un. Now she's a-bitin un

That's the wolfe all right,

Maybe that thur fish ic the white EX?

They do say folk come back n dumb critturs. Maybe the wolfe's come back as a gold ilth. To haunt yer.

Rackou it's time for bed now. And, maybe, when you kick the nickel, you'll be a gold fish, too. Rackon you won't arf cop

il.

Good noight.

in trotght,

Letter

from

Mr. Lucifer

The Kremlin, Moscow.

as a first-class prefect and a My dear Mr Gubbins,

useful half-back."

well

So long since I wrote to

I think my last you, isn't it?

Although Mrs Gilliatt had letter was about my dear dis- three daughters to support asclple, Adolf Hitler, soon after

as the boy, the

navede destroyed himself. As all my enough money to send her son disciples come to a sticky end, I to London to study at Middlesex

think I am Hospital.

BRILLIANT

T 26 he gained his M.D. and A gold medal.

Other qualis ; obtained with a

ftentions he

name

R

credulous pseudo-intellectuals

who join the Communist Party thinking they will be privileged commissars, but end up in the mines; and of old friends who knew too much and had to be quidated in the most amusing circumstances.

In return I tell him of people I have tempted and ruined-of shot Onanciers and unfrocked bishops and murdered lentors. He never dreams for a moment he is on my list.

Our firatest mal nchleve- ment is the number of clergy- men who sympathise with the party. Each night we laughingly drink the health of one notable exumple in your own country, I mean the are who left his caller in the cinema.

Meanwhile, the widow, look ing younger and more beautiful than ever, and mixing the most delicious encktalls, is still asking after her dear Uncle Nat"

She would love you to be here, but if you can't manage it she asks you most earnestly to sign the Stockholm Peace Apperl Sha ng signed it herself at least 100 Umer in different names with her own lipstick. What a wonderful woman. Mr Gabbing.

Yours ever.

Meply

Quiet week-end

"Foreigners arrive here, coin. piala about the food anet BO home and tell les about us," complains a leader writer

Exactly the sante thing hap. + pens after a week-end vixit to

Televis

THERE'S really dear.

no excure,

No. 1 suppose not. We know bacon's rationed, but there are 11 plenty of eggs.

, fish, fish every morning. Fish for huich and those Alty little rissoles for so-called dinner, My dear, 1 san her making them.

broten Squeezing

bread between her fingers. I thought I would frow up.

And, you know, it was mar- garine for us and butter for

them.

That's why they had their breakfast in bed.

What happened to the week- end joint?

hope you

won't callous when I say I have almost forgotten his exlatence in the

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ar it in the refrigerator. They'll eat it now we've gone,

dear,

Nor did I. It's her husband.

Of dune, I didn't mind to excitement of discoverink and much for myself. tempting new disciples, Joseph Stetin and his twelve--I almost I'm so sorry for wrole apostles.

It's cheating.

I've always said, and always shall say, that if a rooman isn't As you might suppose, I have prepared to look after a mat brilliance that attached to its usd the same methods with Joe properly be shouldn't marry

of which were 50 starlit Lelection

successful with him. Adolf, but I believe, in dear old Joe, I have found much better material and should get much more starting results. Like most ruinless people, Adolf was an incurable

alphabetical letters.

Brilliant, qualified, and en thusiastically inspired, Gilliatt wasled no time as a general practitioner. He put out his first brass tablet in Wimpole Street as a gynecologien specialist

Technical brilliance alone ensure success for a Gilliatt has Indre.

cannot

bentimentalist--fond

of doggles, flowers, and kiddies. Remember?and had occasional 'moments of pemorse,

Recently portable equipment. was taken into Clarence House and the. Princess Was

Molta on + from ja few days before the birth is returned X-rayed. This was decided expected.

month's. leave she inspected re- The child who is to come as

room where their cently the upon in order to determine

brother or sister to Prince second child is to be born. it the size of the unborn child.charles will have more advan- will be the first child of royal

If it is found to be large tages aftending its entry.

blood to be born in Claretice surgeon.

His colleagues speak of him as Well, I can assure then the doctors may advise

House, although the building

old and

"who man

Gubbins, becomes dear Mt Bever more than a century Jan induced birth.

when William IV flustered for bufit

go never have any moments of re- wis when he was Duke of Claranew. wrong."

morse. Moreover he isn't fond lof anybody or anything, unless Women say that in the most it's vodka, which makes him a anxious hours his quiet and im- much more movable confidence calms their panton than Adolf, fears..

Princes or princesses are not born in tranquil obscur ity. To thousands of women

At Buckingham Palace, during the birth of the young Prince, there were difculi problents of hot water and stertallon. But because Clarence House, com- pleted for the royal couple year ago, has been redesigned

in British countries the on modern lines, there is hot

in every bedroom al

birth of this child will be as power points for electric kettles. exciting as that of the young Prince Charles.

And not alone to ordinary

women.

THE

CONFIDENT

N

THE DAY

Rowe,

things

AMUSING

MAN with a dour, uncam- municative exterior, Gillatt

If hides behint bis dignified

you, my Joe will

delightful

com-

No wonder he's got an ulcer. I suppose you know it's not only ker cooking that caused that?

I had my suspicions.

My dear. Suspicions. He Iedves his office at five and gets home at eight, smelling like o favern.

If I had nothing but those rissoles to ecme home to 1 wouldn't come home at all,

Of course, you know why the married him, don't you?

Did you notice anything peculiar about their little boy?

Well, you know I simply adore children, don't you?

Of course, dear.

But I just couldn't like that The kindest thing you child. could say

arrested mental de-

velopment, '

And

physical, too.

he's a dwarf.

He

has to thank grandfather for that.

Which side?

My dear,

Fits preat-

I often wondered why any- who was a body did. toctotaller.

Juted twice, fred from every TEXT DOOR to the continu-

Naturally, I encourage him te fob she tried, so he was absolutr. He speaks in favour of pair taik-and to drink far into the ly the lost hope. ment room accommodation has been prepared for a nurse, less childbirth, and the use ofnitat. When he is not organising probably Helen

the anesthetics, and he frowns on the war in Korea, he tells me eficient, cheerful sister who the modern tendency to have of his idiot moujika, who believe attended the Princess at the women up from their beds anything they're told; of his As frequently as E Princess herself calmly birth of Prince Charles.

within five days of giving birth. possible Queen Elizabeth

Both Sir William Gilliatt and He prefers to keep them there and confidently awaits the

the Princess for a fortnight. drives across to Clarence birth of the child who will be Sir John Welz,

succession to the

doctors, will stay within Easy House to see her daughter, third in

Throne, Princess Margaret the reach. and in the quiet rooms of becoming fourth. She has rept the house or in the neat the benútiful layette which was

They may not take up quer- gardens they talk of what used for Prince Charles, the in- ters in the house until the ne-

tual day of the birth. fant's clothes and the cot. is to come.

Most of themi will be used When will that day be? again, but there will be many anyone can predict such an

fuende a warm heart and a wit additions, garments and dresses event with skill it is tall, heavy that makes him one of the most that have been made and knit browed Sir

William Gillatt, amusing after-dinner speakers ted by Queen Maty and other Where

other

doctors do not in his profession. forecast

birth date more BOTH the King and Queen members of the Royal Family.

the Although will be in London for mother has

24-year-old closely than within four or five withdrawn from days. Sir William, with a pre- the birth, waiting for news public life, she is far from selence he cannot define him- from the room on the second inactive. Every day the walks zelf, can do it within two..

in the garden. floor.

Gilliatt attends in her son, attends to her cor-

at her own request. It is a simply furnished room respondence.

This 60-year-old. behind its high windows, and is There

are frequent conter- surgeon brought

Lieut-General the fourth royal child who had appliances which have been In- her Household, stalled already under the direc- Sir Frederick "Bay" Browning, been born under his skilled and tion of Sir William Gillatt, with whom sho plans her

Bulkler medical apparatus for public life for the autumn. use in posable emergency will And arm-in-arm with

THE ROOM

devotes hours

rooms few

Today his consulting are in Brook Street,A minutes' walk away is his home, i overlooking Hyde Park, There the Princess he lives with his wife, once the

clever anaesthetist Dr Am

orthodox young Prince

OUTSIDER" equipped with modern medical ences with the Comptroller of Charles into the world. It was

Released Thra International Films, Ltd.

patient care.

the

He attended

the Duchess of Kent at all three of her contra-

be brought to Clarence House Duke of Edinburgh when he ments.

Louise Kann, and their

daughter.

fied

Their son has recently quali-

father's school, in Middlesex Hospital.

medical

The Ane, lapering hands of Sir William' wilt be the first to hold the royal child.

-(London Express Service?

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London Espress Service.

Ifers. Only four feet ten and as mad as a hatter.

How awful!

Strait jacket. and everything. Miniature, of course.

I'm glad we left today instead of tomorrow.

We simply had to go after the found me picking in the larder.

in the larder, dear?'

I suid,

Pick he said, "What are you

doing in my larder?"

"Well, I'm sorry, dear, but I'm absolutely empty.”,

Well, never again, dear. Never again.

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