Arizona republican., 1910-08-02
GUARDING A KING.
Little Chance to Get in Any of Georges
Palaces.

For an unauthorized person to gain
an entrance into one of King Georges
palaces is nearly an impossibility. 1t
has been done, but the number of times
could almost be counted on the fingers
| of hand.
Within the walls of Windsor castle
are treasures of priceless value, and
even f'the court is not in residence no
one can enter without his presence be-
] ing known to the police.
Although the royal residences are so
well guarded at all times. the guard is
strongest when a foreign sovereign
pays a state visit to this country. Then
| almost every other man is a detective
| within mile or two of Windsor castle,
and no one who is not well known has
the slightest chance of getting within
easy reach of the royal apartments.
| When the king is in residence at
| Windsor the guards are doubled. In
stead of one man marching up and
down WI bayonct fixed between SEN
try box and sentry box, there are two.
Then there are metropolitan police
men on duty at each gateway, as well
as royal gatekeepers in scarlet and
gold livery. In addition to that there
are plain clothes detectives and night
watchmen.
| A lunatic seldom gets further than
Henry Wits gateway at Windsor. The
little police office is just inside the
gate, and here is officially recorded
| every day anything of note that takes
place within the precints of the castle.
A few yards inside the gateway are
! also the quarters of the officer who is
ir command Of the castle guard. Tele
phones are installed all over the close
and the different entrances are con-
nected with the main switchboard near
| the equerries' entrance.
If a paperknife were taken out of
the castle today it would be missed to-
morrow. Every treasure and piece of
| furniture in Windsor castle is entered
into huge books and photographs are
\ kept of all the most valuable articles.
The sentries were always provided
with ball cartridges until a guardman
fired three bullets into a stone elephant
| which he mistook for a ghost in the
| mists of the early morning. Now they
| have to depend on their bayonets.
| 1t is very seldom that thefts take
place at royal residences. The police
! have power to search all bags and par
| GELS being conveyed from the royal
palaces. Many years ago a sentry at
Windsor castle managed to hook down
| a valuable gold watch and chain from
one of the royal apartments with his
| bayonet on the end of his rifle, but
he was quickly found out and pun
ished.
A night Waterman goes on duty in
side the castle at Windsor every night
and comes off in the morning. In
case of fire he would at once give the
| alarm, and in very few moments the
royal firemen and castle guard would
be on the spot and all the entrances
would be closed and guarded. The same
system prevails at the chief of the
other r1al residences.
There used to be sentries at Frog
more in the early part of the last cen
fury, but there are none now. Among
the mausoleums at Frogmore, where
Queen Victoria's remains repose. the
| metropolitan police are on duty all
through the twenty-four hours.
The penalty for a soldier failing to
perform his duty when on guard out
side royal residences is so severe that
there are very few cases indeed on
record of men having to be taken off
their posts.
Two hours on and four hours off
duty are the allotted times in the TWEEN
tyfour hours round, and men are
very seldom discovered asleep. When
the court is in residence at the chief
royal palaces the strain of duty is very
severe at times.
The royal household police, of course,