Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1929, Page 32

The Private Li . of The Prince of W (As Told by an Intimat Chapter VIII Post War Days BY W. exclusively for The Star and the American Newspaper Alliance.) @oprright, E the North American R i rbaner Alliance. During the war the Prince of Wales was lost sight of to a large extent by the general public. !t‘ewu Bor that period simply a junior staff officer handicapped from the service point of view, rather than favored by being the Prince.. He had. indeed, a horror of being advantaged in_any way by his rank. But with the end of the war the Prince began to attract world attention. g the war he had grown to man- 00d: when it ended he was 24. Probably no young man in history ever occupied so important and re- warkable a position in the world as #he Prince of Wales did at the close of the war. Youthful, good-looking, of unblem- ished character, immensely rich, un- married and heir to the throne of the sovereign who rules over a great empire, this young Prince had even more. Be- hind him lay history, a great and ancient tradition. Small wonder it was that he attract- . T. MARSDON. g fe ales e) | was that he was quite obviously not an ordinary type of royal personage as the term is understood in England. After the war he began at once to break away from all those restrictions | of court etiquette and convention that | hitherto had separated royalty and | more particularly the heir to the | throne from his fellowmen. Prince Startles Servants. The Prince at that time had apart- | ments at Buckingham Palace. One morning a little. after seven-the Palace | housemaids were startled to see him | coming downstairs in a sweater and running shorts for a run round the ex- tensive gardens. The gardeners were | equally startled. They had never seen | any one at the palace do such a thing. | The Prince had visitors with whose | appearance officials of the royal house- hold were guite unacquainted. and the ‘GREASING ~; OILING 614 H St.N.W, ‘| people coming to breakfast or'sometimes THE EVENING cards these \visitors presented at the equerry's entrance did not klm they were of that high social standing that to dine with the heir to the throne might be expected to possess. Several of them were men the Prince had known and liked in France, and when he met them in London by acei- dent, in the streets. he asked them to come and have a yarn with him at breakfast or dinner in his rooms at the palace. Generally they were young city or business men. One morning, after breakfasting in his room with one of these war-time friends, the Prince walked with him to the lift when the visitor was leaving. One of the older officials, to his amazement, heard the Prince say: “‘'Well, cheerio old boy. I have been so glad to have had a yarn with you.” ‘The official was aghast. What was the world coming to when the Prince of Wales could address a mere nobody in such a familiar way? Refuses Marlborough House. ‘The Prince had many callers, private and official, and his engagements were beginning to accumulate rapidly, It | STAR. WASHINGTON., D. C. was obvious he would have to set up an_independent establishment. Queen Mary thought he ought to take up his residence at Marlborough House and live in a large and spacious way. Marlborough House was then the Lon- don home of Queen Alexandra, but she would readily have given it up to her grandson, whom she liked greatly. But the Prince would not hear of it. “I am not going to live in a big way at all” he said to his grandmother. ‘t‘;m'{puld feel lost in a big house like So the Prince decided to set up his bachelor establishment at York House. Never had a Prince of Wales had so modest an establishment. York House lies tucked away in a quiet corner of 8t. James’ Palace, known as Ambassa- dors’ Court. There is a public thorough- fare through the court for pedestrians. And people often pass through the court without guessing that the little house in the corner is the home of the heir to the throne. There is not evena sentry; nothing to indicate that this is the house of a royal person. —Outside the hall door are usually to he seen the Prince’s two Cairn_ terriers, though many passersby have no idea to whom the dogs belong. There is no special entrance for the Prince. Callers'at York House on busi- ness often encOunter him entering or leaving. The entrance hall is fairly large. Opening off the hall is an anteroom. At each end of this are folding doors. One leads into the rooms of the Prince’s secretary and assistants, the other into the dining room. Small Staff at Home Upstairs there are a drawing room— used by the Prince only when he re- ceives highly-placed officials and dis- tinguished foreign visitors—a writing room and the Prince’s bedroom and bathroom. That is the extent of his personal accommodation. The Prince’s bedroom 1is in reality a small dressing room opening off the main bedroom, which he uses as a wardrobe room. ‘The servant staff at York House von- sists of & cook, three housemaids, two footmen, & couple of chauffeurs and a general man, Finch, who has been in attendance on the Prince since the heir was 10 years old only. Finch served as soldier-servant to the Prince in France, and is now major-domo at York House. ‘The Prince’s staff now consists of his secretary, assistant secretary, comp- MONDAY. MARCH 4. 1929. troller and three equerries, but the lat- ter are in attencance only on special occasions. ' There are also two clerks and typlsts. When the Prince started his es- tablishment he saw he would have to fulfill many public engagements and perform a number of duties in connec- tion with his position. All this work may be classified under the head of his official life, and he accepted the fact that it must take up much of his time. But he reserved the right to order his private life as he pleased, to have his own friendships, and enjoy him- self in his own way without regard to what he looked upon as bygone conven- tion of court etiquette, ‘This aspect of the Prince’s life will be dealt with in a subsequent articie in this series. (Next—The Prince and His Tours.) Some of the native magistrates of Tanganyika have been restricted by the British government to sentence law of- fenders to only one month and others will be permitted to impose six-month sentences. TREASURY’S LIFE-SAVING MEDALS GIVEN TO HEROES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 4.—Life saving medals awarded by the Treasury De- partment Saturday were presented Capt. George Pried, Chief Officer Manning and members of the lifeboat crew of the United States liner America, who res- cued the crew of the Italian freighter Plorida several weks ago. ‘The presentation was made by Ad- Guard Service, on the bridge of the Ameriea just before the vessel sailed for Europe with Capt. Pried again in com- United States Lines while Manning ugmm-nded the ship on its last round trip. Gold medals were given Manning and the lifeboat crew for endangering their lives in the rescue and a silver medal was given Capt. Fried for guiding the )nner through a gale to the position of the stricken freighter. miral W. C. Billard, head of the Coast | mand. 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