Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-23

or gentleman bows, the presence bows
back, and the man is hustled forward
and out of the room while the long
queue moves up one peg.
It must be admitted that the people
who are in charge of a levee do their
work so automatically correctly that
there is virtually no stopping of the
long queue passing the King or the
prince, and the royal parsonage keeps
bowling uninterruptedly for two or three
hours while the endless stream goes
past. The Prince of Wales will GER
tainly see this duty through. He will
also surely express to his encourage
what he thinks Of it.
For some time TO come 1t Is likely
that foreign ambassadors and ministers
will present their credentials or theif
letters of recall to the prince instead
of to the King, with all the old-time
ceremonial of court carriages sent To
fetch them from their homes to the
palace.
1t is also to be expected that this
year, at least, the prince will deputize
for the King on his annual visit to
AlderShot, the great training center OF
the British Army in Hampshire. where
1t has been the custom for the King to
spend a week every Summer residing in
the royal pavilion among his troops.
Cowes. too, the great water carnival
at the Isle of Wight, which marks the
closing OF the London season, may see
the prince instead of the King on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert,
which comes out of harbor at Ports
mouth and Steams across to Cowes to
be the center of the great feet OF
yachts which gather in the island road
stead at the beginning Of every August.
In Time Of Disaster.
Whenever national disaster befalls
England it is usual for the King to visit
the scene A case In point is the stu
alton prevailing in the mining districts
in the north of England and in Wales.
The first public function performed by
in his power. Such a duty would no
was to visit the stricken mining villages
in the north and to take such comfort
to the wretched populations as lay with
his power. Such duty would no doubt
have been performed by the King had
he been we'll enough to travel
1t is not only in the big things that
the Prince must deputize for his father.
There is In England an impalpable in
fiuence radiating from the King which
it is difficult TO explain to those who
have not lived In this country. For all
that people boast about the coming of
democracy and Of the leveling of classes,
particularly since the war, there Is no
doubt the King does exercise personal
influence on q certain restricted class of
the population, which in It's turn Is the
leaven for the lump.
The people who live in the West End
of London, the officers of the army and
the navy, and the men of equivalent
class of the British civil service are still
Influenced to surprisingly large extent
by what the King likes or does not like.
A man in the position of King George
has 1t In his power to do an immense
amount of good indirectly through the
people who come under his influence and
who look directly to him for guidance
A bad King could play havoc with the
social fabric of England. not because
of any particular constitutional power
he might possess, but because there Is a
strong strain of snobbery In large
class OF Englishnnen who would be pre-
pared to follow almost anywhere the
King led. / particularly do not wish to
be misunderstood In the use make of
the word snobbery. / am using 1t
without a trace of malice or ill-feeling
This is the influence that. for good or
evil, the Prince OF Wales will have to
exercise. That he will exercise 1t for
good Is an almost foregone conclusion.
The story OF his past life. to which
this article serves as an introduction,
gives good promise for the princes
future.
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