1950-09-23 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950,

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Zilliboy ends his Continental travels ANGLAIS

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and at this time of ovixis it's been so uneful to mix with Continentals

and feel the pulse of Europe.”

Cummings

London Express Bervios

THE KING'S

MONEY

Poorer than any British monarch for 100 years

by SIDNEY RODIN

RITAIN'S bill for the The King himself re

B Monarchy this year reives n salary his Privy

war and, with those savings now nearly exhaustion by using his own funds.

doesn't cost them naval vessel or a King's Flight.

WHATS

TEGOENAG DIAN

by

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

Africa.

South

: LONDON. South of France, the North of N September 23 Lord Scotland, London, and Carnegie, son of the But the 21,000 acres of ligh- Earl of Southesk, will tand moor which make up his come of age.

Cressady estate no longer ni- There will be a celebra- tract him as they did in the tion ball at his home, Kin-, days when, a crack shot, he could drop a galloping stug at naird Castle, Brechin, ceveral hundred yards range, to the Glamis.

close Queen's old home.

Invitations have gone out, but to all inquiries at the castle the reply is no publicity."

Although Lord Carnegie is little in the limelight, he y one of the most eligible bachelors in Britain.

Ils mother was famous in her day as Princess Maud. His grandmother was Princess Louise, daughter of King Edward VII, and wife of the first Duke of Fife.

On coming of age, Lord Carnegie will take over his mother's considerable for- tune, left entirely in trust fur him.

But there is greater heri- tage to come. His aunt is Duchess of Fife, the former money is a Princess Arthur of Con- plane of the naught.

The King has cut down its personal expenditure very con parierably".

Three times in seven years li has been announced that the duke will sell Tressady once

1943, once last March, and once again last week.

And this time a further 77,-. 000 Scottish acres have been forsed into the auction ring.

The duke has no children, and his accond duchess, whom he married in 1944, prefers the Cote d'Azur to Scotland's rough rod micced northern ecast- line.

THERE

Together

HERE was much controversy,

over the cho'ce of a French- Raymand Sommer — 10

drive the British Racing Motor.

It is typical of him that he has taken no part in the wran

no word ple, and uttered complaint after the B.R.M.'s de- it acte at Silverstone-when

on the starting broke down grid,

For Sommer (44), tall, gny, and debonair in his

dathing!

The dukedon of Fife, and no debt the greater part of the the overalls and helmet to wealth that goes with it, as well match, is one of the best-kel as his father's carldom, will one men in Grand Prix racing, shi ay fall to this young man who is unsurpassed as a sportsman,

period National He is an enthusiastle racehorse ended his

He a rich man with a fine Guards private in home la owner, but he makes

racing Service as a

Paris, buys his own corn, and races for the fun of pay. From 1946 to 19 19 his prize- Malaya last year.

Even his

From his earliest childhood he money was £37,150.

it. But he is always willing to Hit

has been a friend of Princess

interests in the Princess Eliza- eckground and work for 11

friend Baked

of the bag.

ut ha own at Sandringhur

The bill for the Monarchy led a profit by the part sale Margaret and

beth. therefore must be well in exercs of the account settled

will he. just over Purse-of £110,000. It is £1,000,000 after the last the same as that paid to maintenance repair is com- Edward VIII, and George by the nation. pleted ut the royal re- V. akdences and after the most

Buckingham Palace has re- ceived her wages.

The £1,000,000 enables the King to carry out the biggest job in the world as the man who binds together 560 million people in the British Commonwealth.

Largely as a result of this, and

of Cornwall to help reduce came to the Throne, the contribution from the Exchequer.

there any member of the family who has more ready cashi than the King?

and

..

willed to

£10,000 clothes

PROM Paris, preparing for the autumn season, I have news of the fabulous sums spent on clothes by some of the city's best-dressed women.

robe

icar.

At Monza, 1,12

"What are your hobbies?" Sald Sommer: First, looking after my wife; then motor rac- ing. That is my life."

two go together, to The Madame Sommer, - a pretty, dark-haired woman, nilendis every meeting with her hus- band.

Fotch and carry

widely belleved that junior chambermaid at Unlike Presklent. Tru- because the King pays the full Queen Mary is very rich. Pre

man's, the King's salary is rate of tax (up to 19s. 6d, in war her fortune was assessed at tax free. But this year all the E) on all investment in- £2,000,000, much of it left by

is Queen Victoria but 236,051 of it really come, his personal fortune

Hending the 1st of big spen- ders is a grandmother, Princess came from the King's pox believed to have abrunk so that her by George V.

Since 1936 her annuities drawn May de Lüelnge. She is over 60, ket because he surrenders he is far worse off than any of

since Victoria from the Slate havo totalled looks a chic 40, and spends up the revenue from his Duchy his predecessors

£20,000,

to £10,000 a year on her wird-

The Treasury will take a huge Others in the same grand sum from her in death duties, for cless are the Comtesse Jeanne these are paid by all royalty, de Chovagnae, a leader of Paris except the Suvereign.

Toshion

for 25

years Madame Rubio, famous for wearin!

largest Singi quare diamond ring in Paris,

Before leaving, Mr Dening [1 encouraging to tud that wo at the bost-dressed women talked of a personal problem.

When he went to Colombo in Paris get by with the cure the Empire Conference last

for eatively modest

expenditure

took with him January he aef only about £1.000 your.

many belongings, believing that They are the young Maxine, he was destined for post in Cuntesse de la Falabelaugh-

the Far East. Now that seems er of painter Oswald Birley unlikely.

The bill has not varied much during three reigns.

How does it compare with the cost of the Pres- dency of the United States?

President Truman's monetary reward for guid ing the destinies of 134 mil- lion people works out £275 a week after tax paid.

at

13

He has made heavy fluancial entriles. Hs father, George V.. 10 teenumised] during the 1914 War that he gave to the Exche- quer £100,000 and made equal contributions to war charities.

He became so short of cash to maxpenses 1921 that Par- Hamment authorised the realism

Although the Presidency is embellished with nothing

For jah nearly four ton of £100,000 from the Duchy like the ceremonial of the times the size, extending of Lancaster-part of the King's Crown, it does not work out over an empire infinitely ereditary estales,

more complex, the King is paid by as 2698 a

But the comparison is not as favourable to the King as it sounds.

NO much cheaper. Il costs £700,000.

NINE PALACES

PRESIDENT Truman's

week.

Sovereign every your

Again, in the 1931 George V, voluntarily Civil List by £50,000.

AT

THE DUKE

THE Duke of Windsor enjoyed The income from the Duchy of Cornwall for 25 years

Prince of were low,

Wales. when taxes

the

and

[a 1927. fur example. the Intui Vicomtesse Benol; d'Ary, dushy yielded £72,017. When

crisis, he left. Britain his personal

cut

GIVEN BACK

his wealth must have totalled some hundreds of thousands at pourla.

Acres dwindle

FF of the U.S. with Foreign Secretary Bevin, was Mr M. E. Dening, head of the Foreign Once Far East Department.

He plies between London and the U.S. His goods and chattels lie at Colombo.

And he has only one way to

TALL, foriuly Rood-looking get them back, without paying

widely between

the

(London Expruza Servies}

He gained nothing when he ilver-haired at 62, the on duty and taxes; to go to Colom renounced the three. Because Duke of Sutherland still ends bo and fetch them home him-

self. he held that Sandringham and active life-active enough to of the last war Balmoral were T THE end

anseparable | travel the present King handled part of the Monarchy in mack £20,000 and has given eyes of the people he voluntarily athir 100.000 of wartime gave them to his brother.

List Aavings to poy for Icur YCHIR the increment in

the

For the salary today is £35,700 a forced

to dip year, following a rise fast deeper into his own pocket year of £8,928. Of this he to sustain the splendour of jays back about £21,400 in his exalted office. faxes. But he receive in addition tax-free expenses Almost every year since Princess Elizabeth's allowance throughout the world has so far

on her bracht hin nearly £180,000. amounting to £32130. the war charges for labour rented by Parliament

and materials buve FISCAL

keeping necessitated by the

pump of monarchy.

In

Lone

PAYING BILLS

large,

Similarly the Duchy of Lan motor, producing a revenue of about £90,000 from property in London rd the North, heps to replenish the royal coffers.

Publication of his memoirs

worst-off MONK One of se royalty is the Duchess of Kent.

Design For Living

By C.V.R. Thompson

NEW YORK.

Wiener, one

programme" for which Ire- "Amri- sident Truman uşited:

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Running the White meuple. Yet, except for a The Khy: Is hord pressed to Although energing out a heavy House with its staff of 30 „doja30 ammal prat voted ave has bCINGDA wealth, renting of pubie duties the pets cost £95,000 last years Lam in 1915 towards the items most paying pusses- no money from the Slate other pension as the White House

re- case of the family's privalo is the Sandringham estate, then her £399 utlices

reserved recently to 15,000 seres widow of an air commodore quired another £535,710. suites at the palaces, no

-mid vained ingally at £1,000,000, whh three children.

Dormerte un the cans must make the choice of How simple it sounds additional hop has

15 hums are run on a ound commercial basis.

When the Duke died in this compared with the book from the Treasury.

rank on active R.A.F. service in room boys, hus predicted the risk of losing their pants." 1942 he left £157,735, Most of that another work war BOYCOTT;. Bartenders may it is in trust for his older gon would bring robots instead that they can longer Bell now aged 14.

of men and women to the bottles of lager brewed

Czechoslovakia. Pletures and untiques which factory bench. belonged to her husband were

EDUCATION: The University cold by the Duchess in 1947. for He said the automatic of Georgia will include in thats Of course, if the King could £12,341. The following year she factory is already a possibi- ytar'ṣ correspondence studira

told books for £1,022,

to make out the decorating, plumbing, sell his heirlooms lo would

ty. And the only reason a cours; on how

Income-tax returns. furnishing, and interior re stand high in the list of Britain's

mu.ti-millionaires. He OWJIS The most Important posses-we do not have them yet is

General pair bills which accumulate Balmoral, an 80,000 acre estate suns

Mark remaling

FORCES: are that there is no real neces- Kuat party of the palace worth £800,000.

Ceppins, her house in Bucking; alty.

Clark, chief of America's ground mmshire, which reserved exclusively for the

forces, promised that army re- use of royalty.

anest selling, und some magicent But Dr

kind of

Britain nine royal

palaces must be kept in FL King must defray structural repair by the of his £152,800 house- State at a cost this year of hold expense allotment all £110,000.

Saluries and pensions for the royal household cost Buckingham €134,000. Palace alone has 200 domus the servants, and there are scores at the other re- sidences.

To pay the living CX- penses of the household the King gets £152,800.

FIVE GRANTS

in.

to her

not ply is

PRINCESSES

Ile has the world's private collection of pletures, 506 jewellery. · At Buckingham Palace of them valued 1910 Hit

£2,000,000, the

King

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Its stamp collection is worth except that used for lighting upwards of £500,000,

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PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Wiener argued cults will now be ready for

brutul the most that a new. war would warfare" after six months of create that necessity, bo- training. cause millions more men WEATHER. Dr Vincent would be needed for the Schaffer, the first scientist to man-made GOGW- QINCE ther marringe Princess fighting fronts and for oc- produce The King la owner

Elizabeth of Ascot

has found something Duke of ocupation" purposes. and the racecourse, but takes no profit Edinburgh have been receiving

Under such pressure, he else for UNO to do. He wants from 3. More than 50 "grace and from Parliament £50,000 a year:

n special commission formed At Windsor Castle the favour residences, ranging from all but £0,000 tax free. But anid. we could convert at to use Ecientists, all: over the State pays for all the water mansions like Carence House it is doubtful if they are able to least half our industry to world to regulate the weather.

-even the royal bath water to rmal park lodges, uro the save, The department of the

TEST: Dr Otto Kleeberg, THE BURDEN of and since 1947 at both the Sovereign's, but he lets them Pilyy Purse asked on the Prin-robots within three years.

What he calls "the second in- mind doctor, wants a panel of monarchy is shared by Palace, and Winador for all out rent free fre public servants cess's behalf for another £ch dustrial revolution" will come experts to examine the heads

Coplas of photographs other members of the Royal electric lamps,

elictions, anyway, he thinks, within about,' of alt men who win Fumily besides the King

29 years.

taken by the South China And he is disturbed and only those classified as Taxpayers, pay for clean- and Queen, and to five of

Duchess of Gloucester, that nothing has been done to "normal" would be allowed to Morning Post and Hong Kong

tako office. them Parliament grants ng the outside of the win-

the Duke of Buc-|#ankind ready for It dows at both places, but the

It is to be disastrous,"

BUSINESS: SHOW annuities totalling £161,000. King pays for cleaning them He holds, too, the title deeds cleuch, left 2074,482" in 1937,

WE

says, the great electronic rivalution 1

during their mast be coupled once of the Crown Lands, but Inside.

But the poor little rich girl with great educational pro- America was the weather calen -the revenues were Queen Mary

70,000

long age among roynity Ẫ Princess surrendered to the State, n Princess Elizabeth 40,000 The King has fought the

Marwarst. She has no money for ramme), to prepare fun for enough for Fiora Duke of Edinburgh 10,000 battle-of- touring costs by The King and Queen pay for herself until next August, when living which we hardly do the cast of "Black Chiton" to Duke of Gloucester 88,000 drawing on savings, made, almost everything they require he becomes 21. Then the state and "korkusu pri rehearse under the sky, aboard Thay may accept nothing tree, Will give her £6,000 – VERDIG

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and their dependants.

NOTHING FREE

! a year as the minimumn on which

sho can run her household:

The come from a wealthy famity. Her father

he

Princess Royal 6,000 in his Civil List during the the only transport that mat

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