Show I Wales Not Likely to Abdicate 1 j I Altho Although gh Slow to Take Bride I r k 4 4 r T c s' s 5 S t rDa 5 1 It was the Prince of Wales Wales' purchase of Grove Farm at Lenton I I Nottingham here viewed from the opposite bank of the Trent which I recently contributed d to revived speculation anent his abdicating At the right the prince is seen in his soil soil togs By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Correspondent LONDON March Every s-Every time the Prince of Val Wales s accepts an Invitation invitation In- In or refuses one one wears ermine ermine er- er mine or wears tweeds with an untitled beauty or 01 buys a farm farm- every time he turns around in iii fact someone Is ready to say that he loathes his Inheritance and IS about to abdicate But If you asked the question seriously seriously seri seri- of any canny intelligent BritIsh Brit irit- Ish bookmaker the sporting probably would bei like Uke Thirty to one lie he doesn't There are two princIpal actors back ot of the gossip that the would like to step down One is his persistent bachelorhood lh The other the pushing forward of ot 01 York as exemplified In his present grand tour to Australia and New Zealand The bachelorhood of the prince long ago started the talk that he was not keen to mount the throne Heirs apparent usually marry young and start families to make the on in inthe inthe the direct line secure For instance King Edward VII as Prince of Wales Vales was quite as much mucha a man of the world as ad his famous grandson But just the he married at 22 and by the time lie he was 28 all hIs children 3 sons bans and three daughters had been born THRONE UNEXPECTED King George Geoge did not expect to be king His elder brother the Duke of Clarence was th thi hell heir to rl throne But his brother diet died In 1892 1192 and promptly the next year the thc new hell heir married By the time he was the 33 present age of the PrInce of Wales Prince George Geore had three children People used to speculate as to whom the present PrInce of Wales ales would marry But ne nearly ly eer every girl with whom his name had been Jeen cou ou pled pied has since else Now p people ople have become used to a bachelor prInce If he should marry It would create a of the tho first class And peoples people's tongues have been set wagging again by the that the Duke an ans Duchess of If York are on theIr way to the f opening of Australia's new capital at Can Can- berra S The truth of the matter I Is tat fat the Prince of Wales Vales Is a tired n. No No hell heir apparent In British has done so much a he he nor worked so ep hard nt at It Since the var he has vi silo to New v Zealand South Africa and India ROYAL DEMOCRAT lIe knows more at first handl about the empire than any British prince that ever lIved lie Ire ha had to tomake tomake make innumerable Epe H end every speech had to be end lInd carefully framed lIe He had t t. t make friends for England and the royal family In all his journeying he never made a mistake lIe charmed b by his unfailing courtesy courtey tact and l Eve le e and always lie he was vas the and royal democrat But now he has struck I-fe I to sta stay home and lead the kind of life he likes He dances a little He rides a great deal dea He works hard to ke keep p himself lean ann cally fit In between times he g tg away from the great and dashes over the wall with the poor And he enjoys It and makes more friends GENUINE FILIAL AFFECTION l People eople ta n the know to 10 nt believe the Prince of Wales Vales even plates dodging the nt But he heis heis is not expectantly eying the great pIa place co that holds There Is too much genuine affection in him for that The only recent hell heir who chafed because his kingdom dom was so o long coming to him was the ex- ex kaiser of Germany William was ambitious and vain an and 1 fr power So tr as af the public n c. see ee there Is not a a. drop of kind of bounce or vanity or ambItion in inthe inthe the Prince of |