| Show 0 0 z rift A 4 P v it W el 44 jr 4 lt I 1 V IN vu m g vhf 6 4 OVER HER HEIR APPARENT xa by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ERE ERB Is a short cablegram B H from london that might i n H be expanded to a page arm JL tide since it deals with a situation that quite upsets the Britis hers and Is c causing a u a I 1 n g international comment A flurry of criticism was aroused today by an exhibition of caricatures by max beerbohm one depleted the prince of wales aged and bearded marrying the daughter of an english landlady the time of the supposed marriage was set in 1072 it Is entitled long choosing choo and beginning late the basis for or the caricature Is the prince of wales apparent aversion to marriage there was wag however a storm of protest from press and public and the caricature was withdrawn the weekly aux of paris prints a story in which it says on inside authority that the prince of wales has decided to renounce the throne in favor of the duke of york wed not even for a brownl crown 1 Is practically cally the attitude of the prince of wales according to aux Eco utes which says among other things IQ queen mary Is insistent that he marry but the prince will aill not listen especially since during his voyage to india his parents married off his sister princess mary whom he be desired to see the wife of hla his friend and comrade lord louis Mount batten to lord Lase lascelles elles the prince did not even send a wedding present to hla his sister during the last season queen mary privately told the duchess of connaught caught edward will marry this year the duchess thereupon arranged a grand reception at which the news w as scheduled to be given out but the prince staled at home sending the duke of york to whom he said bald tell them if they want a ting king I 1 ani am hero here but if they must have a queen too loo then I 1 renounce in your favor realie lle all you know one of En glands chief w watles ties even in these parlous times of reconstruction seems to be just what to do with his royal highness the prince of wales sly word he should have bave married long ago and given great britain a future queen and a whole fleet of little princes and princesses instead when george and mary talk marriage to him he gives them the bird when the london press picks out a new bride for him he goes when the whole empire shudders and protests because his horse falls lie he gets a better mount and wins when he should be on hand band at some heavy state function he sends the duke of york la in hla his stead with unmoved Beren serenity ity he sees bees the advent of princess marys master mabler lascelles and the marriage of sways ay ariz I 1 the duke of york to lady elisabeth bowes lyon apropos of the story printed by the paris aux Eco utes here Is the british version corroborating it duke carry on marry bettyl betty 1 lady elisabeth bowes lyou lyon I 1 never will and what Is more learn to be king of england I 1 never will be and what are they going to do about 10 it part of the british worry parliament of course Is supreme but can it order the prince to marry or to stop all joking aside it Is probably no exaggeration to say that the prince of wales Is the constant worry of his parents and the disappointment ot of the english people anyway the prince of wales has had a good time since 1919 in that year fresh from four years of war he was sent out to conquer the dominions of the british empire and he be did a good job all through 1919 and 1920 england read with thrills the odyssey of its princely young ambassador bas conies canies the summer season 1921 H 11 IL II la Is twenty seven it finds blin still a bachelor most prospective kings are married at twenty teven even with ith heirs so the english press begins to pick out a future queen of england one after another royal young woman Is tentatively chos chosen ren but 11 II it 11 II says never a word in approval one after another the selected brides go into the discard bars of religion nationality caste or looks you know then vox vex through the press begins to suggest a bride from the english nobility and another succession of tent tentative athe candidates anil and so on up into 1922 1022 and now the prince has become a young man inan about town tonn at eight in the morning wales Is up and driving his car to a meet of the pytchley or the quorn where lie he proceeds to fall off his horse says ferdinand in the new york herld at midday nil dilny he be Is photographed drinking champagne at a point to point meeting at chich in the course of the afternoon lie Is thrown at the water jump and photographed emerging neptune like a dripping mass and so back to loa on to din ner at the ritz altz or the claridge with anybody who can afford 5 to say that they dined with the prince of wales and so 60 on to a revue rev ue some bright and tuneful mental narcotic one show called the nine revue he has baa seen 10 16 times in three months month always sitting in the stalls and never in a box and going behind the scenes between the acts to chat with members of the company cora pany or else standing sipping ipa at the bar all excellent stuff but think of buckingham palace 1 twelve the show to is over with his gay companions of which lord Burg hersh Is the chief H B R H repairs to the queens hall or grafton gallery dance club sometimes escorting a society lady such as mrs dudley ward sometimes a beautiful young actress such as beatrice lillie all excellent stuff but think of buckingham palace and so to bed sometimes in st james palace sometimes in charges street and then the th round begins again of course all this has its amusing side especially to an Ameri american cun still says the new york times one cannot avoid the fact that the prince of wales is heir apparent to a throne of some importance in the tha world and the times goes on to say bayt the duke of york has lived alth hitherto with his parents the prince bas ba traveled perhaps too much neves resting the restless instinct has been overdeveloped for years at a unis time lie he has wandered homeless doing hit his bit lie ile Is so utterly popular that la in public esteem there are now no new worlds tor for him to conquer he has already exhausted all the first thrills of kingship ue he has passed beyond the illusions so under the circumstances it I 1 la not to be wondered that the british public Is asking in whispers what Is behind it alir alar its a fair question Is this young prince who seemed destined to be the idol of his country countrymen inen merely a and an I 1 der those who know hin him well say bay he be is 19 not they assert that hes the stuff of which real leaders are made why then his shirking of his obvious duty as the british public sees that butyl london sees no answer to this question it whispers about a possible unfortunate affair of the heart but cannot find the lady in the case finally the speculation gets down to this does als royal highness the tha prince of wales really want to ascend the throne |
