Evening star., 1924-09-05
Reason for ShyneSs.


| They have no reporters in the tight
| little. right little island over which
| the prince some day will reign.
| Reason for Shyncss.
! There is reason for the prince :
| shyncsS about the lady reporters.
| Whenever there has been meeting
of H. L. II. and the newspaper pack
| the boy reporters have put the girl
Re porters up TO asking all sorts of
| questions. the main one being, "Oh.
| Prince, If You should fall in love with
an American girl, would you marry
! her."
| That's n fine question to be finging
| at the future king and emperor. and
| it's no wonder Davy Windsor put his
| foot down. figuratively speaking. on
! the lady reporters. In the first place.
! the prince is not thinking about fall
ing in love with an American girl.
He is not even taking chance on
| that. He likes the young matronS
better. And in the second place. the
prince would have to give up his
prospective throne if he should marry
Il "commoner"
Royalty is all right to rub elbows
with in this democratic country. but
when royalty is in the position of
the Prince Of Wales il has to watch
it's stxp. Its first duty is to its
reopic.
Likes Married Set.
The people of England. by the way,
are beginning to worry about the
Young princes future. matrimonial :
ly speaking, for over there he is
| just as girl shy as he is on this
| side of the water and sticks to the
fast young married set for vir-
| tually all of his social diversions
Many of the grandest old match
makers in Europe have taken a films
| at the prince. but he has been la
| too wary for them.
Even Queen Marie of Rumania
| queen indeed of the modern match
makers, has gone visiting at Buck
ngham in the last few months, but
| the prince was out most every
evening. AS a matter of fact, that
is one of the best things the prince
does-go out Whenever he gets
dressed up he always seems to have
place to go.
In London. in Paris. on Long Island
1t is all the same to the prince. Time
was made for slaves. Night time was
made for gay young princes. who may
have to spend their older years
weighted down with the burdens of
state and matrimony. The prince is
not like the little boy of the nursery
rhyme. who hated to go to bed by
day. He hates to go at any other
time. He is sort of latter day
Chanticler and has to see that the
sun is called every morning so the
world can go about its affairs.
Values His Freedom.
The prince knows what the free
dom of bachelorhood means. He
knows that his playdays, or rather
play nights, would be virtually ended
the moment he said Il do" He knows
most of all that an extremely large
percentage of his present-day popu-
larity is due to the fact that he is
heartwhole and fancy free. Imagine
the girls making such a fuss about
him, about his pictures in the papers,
about his boyish freshness and all
that sort of thing, if he were married.
1t is not often, however, that a
prince destined to wear a crown,
gets to 80 years without being shack
led. King George fought off the
matchmakers until he was % and
that was pretty good record in
those days. His son already has
beaten the old mans record, how
ever and up to the present moment
shows no sign of weakening.
But his time will come. To royalty
matrimony is just like death and
taxes.
(Copyr:-ht, 1924)