Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28

The equerries do q months duty In turn,
accompanying the Prince at all official flnc-
tions and being responsible for any private
invitations which are not sent to H. r. H.
direct. Major the Hon. Piers Leigh is the
senior Of the two slight but wiry man Of SO,
married since 1920 to the widow of Capt.
Shaughnessy, who was Sarah Polk, daughter
of the late Judge Bradford of Woodstock Nash
ville Tenn
Shaughnessy was the son of the multi
millionaire chairman Of the board Of direc-
tors Of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His
widow was visiting her father in-law in Canada
when the Prince was there with his eQuerry
just after the war. But the two had met
before. when Piers Leigh was aide to the Duke
Of Connaught. then Governor General of
Canada.
THEY call Piers Leigh Babe" maybe be-
cause he looks languid. He tells story
with Guardee drawl, lingering his mustache
and with limpid eyes very wide, but there is
steady mind behind that lackadaisical man.
ner, memory that never lets detail CO. and
q measuring eye for character He Is a good
judge Of q man.
He has had some close shaves Once while
hunting with the Prince, youth darted across
the path Of his horse going hell for leather
with the hounds in full cry. The youth went
crash that the saddle was torn in two pieces
The rider was picked up unconscious. He had
conclusion and broken ribs. The first words
he uttered when he came to were: Flows the
boy?" The boy had escaped more lightly.
Two years later driving to visit his parents
one night, he ran full tilt into telegraph pole
On country road, and was found with an
injured chest over the steering wheel of his
smashed car.
Wtkhal ha % r,,iet ,..n - k..I
charm and considerable worldly knowledge
He handles people with. velvet gloves. HIS
resource Is boundless
Bruce Ogilvy, lean, CHEEKY, muscular, is
young. He likes dancing and hunting and IL
always ready for fun. He has laughing dark
eye. and curly hair that Is likely to look I'M
tidy. even In the evening. He Is as keen q
horseman as the Prince, but does not notch up
as many falls probably because he has longer
legs. and doesn't ride such big horses or such
. selection.
He did break a leg once. But 1t wasn't in
the hunting field; he was drilling with his
regiment in the royal park at Windsor when
his horse slipped on the wet turf and fell
swapping his leg.
So much for the encourage. Add an English
cavalry officer from the Indian Army. q scot.
fish airman-athlete who was trained for medi-
cine. group Of young hunting enthusiasts.
and you exhaust the men Immediately around
the Prince. His range of acquaintance is enor-
NOUS. his personal circle very small
Unlike King Edward, his grandfather. he
does not include bankers merchant princes
and shrewd old diplomats among his intimates.
and. unlike his father, he does not take pleas
ure In the sedate company of few of the old
aristocracy who belong to what society calls
the dull set" (but 1t is the most exclusive set
Of ALI.
His intimate friends are set as small AZ
nus encourage Not scholar, artist states
man or man Of letters among them. He pre-
1efs hunting men, and he likes them young
All his woman friends likewise are well known
in the hunting field,
HE talks and laughs with, and has to dinner
and calls by their nicknames, men like the
TAN young Earl Of Westmorland who married
lively, sport-lovng widow with four children:
man very like the Prince In build and man
ner, gregarious good sport, fond Of Joke of
tine open air and exercise. Of good wine and
food Mike Wardell another young hunting
man, whom Lord Beaverbrook took on his
group OF papers as aide to the business man
ager. LORD Louis Mountbatten, the polo-
playing sailor, married to the ultra-smare
granddaughter OF King Edwards banker friend.
the late Sir Ernest Cassel-who left her the
bulk Of his huge fortune.
Also Maj. "Fruity" Metcalfe, the tall, lean
III. r. H. has no fat friends) cavalry officer
whom the Prince met in India, liked and at
tached to his household as master OF the horse,
In his new world "Fruity" Metcalfe, long,
jawed, handsome, tanned, dandiacal. courtier-
like, met and married the very good looking
Lady Alexandra Curzon, the youngest of the
three celebrated Curzon girls (each of whom
derives considerable income from the Letter
estate), and now winters at Palm Beach and
has very good time
One might mention, If he were not a brother.
Prince George, whom H. r. H. has taken under
his wing and gives a good time to- He is not
precisely intimate with either of his other
brothers, the Dukes of York and Gloucester.
but he and Prince George have much the same
tastes and get on well together
Sir Philip SaSsoon dark impassiye ,sad to