Evening star., 1936-12-10
YORK RATED AS AN NINDUSTRIAI-MINDED PRINCE

trim, uniformed man--and instead
were greeted by the coal-streaked face
Of the duke peering out Of the cab
with o wave Of q grimy hand clutch.
ing O ball Of cotton waste.
As an amateur photographer, he had
his own camera, protector and theater.
ard recorded many incidents in the
life of the royal family.
Obliged by newspaper photograph
ers to pose time and again. he has
relished turning the tables upon them
by getting behind the camera him
self.
At one Of his Summer camps he
lined up photographers with the re-
mark. You are always photographins
me. 80 now I'll photograph you"
Borrowing q camera, he made them
pose until he was satisfied, and then.
repeating the formula he heard often
enough from their lips, he said, II will
take just one more-in case -"
Art little attracted him for It's own
sake, but he had q sharp eye for
errors.
On one occasion, while attending an
exhibition, he spotted a picture Of the
Duke of Connaught wearing the rib
bon Of the Order of the Garter over
the wrong shoulder.
At another art show he paused be-
fore a portrait Of Napoleon by Jean
Ingres and demanded to know why
the wrong hand was thrust in the
traditional pose of the little corporal
through a respondent jacket.
THE buttons are on the wrong side,"
ne explained.
Britain's new Queen is the first
commoner to share the throne since
the time of the oft-married Henry
VIII.
The blue-eyed, dark-haired daugh.
ter Of an aristocratic Scottish FAM
ily, she has long been known to the
world as the Duchess of York and
the mother Of Princess Elizabeth, this
heir to the throne, and Princess Mar
garet Rose.
Yet, until her engagement to the
Duke of York in January, 1928, she
was virtually unknown TO the British
public.
She was then Lady Elizabeth Angela
! Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, daughter Of
the Earl and Countess of Strathmore
and Kinghorne. The grim and stately
seat Of the earl was Glamis Castle
in the thanedom once belonging TO
| Macbeth.
Educated at Home.
Apart from two terms spent in
day schol in London. she was edu-
Gated entirely at home. She studied
music, learned to become o needle
woman. took q turn at cooking and
engaged in the outdoor life Of q Brit
ish gentlewoman.
Once. attired in housemaid's gsrb,
she showed a group of American
tourists over Glamis Castle.
While the new Queen comes from
an old Scottish family, and her hus-
band has often referred TO her as
my Scottish wife" she was born
August 4, 1900, at the family's Eng
lish seat, st. Paul's Waldenbury.
There, on a Wintry Sunday morn
ing, January IA. 1923. the second son
Of George v proposed and was ac-
cepted. 1t Is traditional that Dukes
Of York marry for love" and the
romance was termed "a simple. old
| fashioned love match"
But it was not 50 simple for the
duke. The Earl of Strathmore later
disclosed that the duke proposed three
times to his daughter before she ac-
cepted. ..--
There was no modern precedent for
the marriage of a commoner with a
royal prince close to the throne in the
succession, though a number of Eng.
| lish princesses were wed to common.
ers, including the dukes sister. VINO
married Vscount Lascelles, later the
Earl of Harewood, in 1922.
Possible Precedents.
George ". however, had been Sc
cretly married to the widow Mary
Fitzherbert. though they separated be-
fore he came to the throne. and before
him James II married Anne Hyde.
daughter of Lord Clarendon. She
died before he became King.
The Duke of York and Lady Eliza
beth were married with full pomp
April 2s. 1928, in Westminster Abbey.
George v had conferred on the bride
the dignity Of princess the day be-
fore and at the wedding breakfast he
announced her designation as a royal
highness.
The royal family fully approved OF
her.
Queen Mary, with whom she be-
came increasingly popular. had SAID
her new daughter-in-laww was mot one
Of these modern girls. thank Heaven. &"
The duchess avoided extremes. In
her dress she has been uniformly cor
servative and there were no pluckCd
eyebrows and no bobbed hair.
Coming from large family, with
her fair share of brothers whose in
fiuence had been enough to make a
tom-boy of her, she was likewise
popular with her royal brothers-in-
law.
Edward, then Prince Of Wales, look
ing forward to the day when his broth
er might succeed him to the throne,
called her Queen Elizabeth"
Joined In Public Duties.
As q public parsonage she took her
place by the side of her husband in
fulfilling the innumerable engagements
Of the ruling house. though she has
never displayed the energy that typi-
fed Queen Mary.
Her first child, Princess Elizabeth.
was born April ii. 1926. The duchess
early learned what it was to be q
public parsonage, for. before her
daughter was q year old. she had to
leave the infant with her grand
parents and join the duke in his
Australian tour.
Her second child. Princess Margaret
Rose, was born August 81, 1880, in
Glamis Castle. Not since Charles
was born in Dunfermline had a royal
child been born in Scotland
While devoting herself to the educa-
ton of her daughters she continued