Evening star., 1936-12-15
Princess EIizabeth's Training
Is Equipping Her to Be Queen
Dash of Wilfulness Tempers Sweetness
of Child-Similarity to Royal
Grandmother Displayed.

child's whole ambition is to be like
her mother, whom she adores.
The new King and Queen of Eng.
land are expected within the next
two years to tour parts of the British
Empire, parts of which they already
know fairly well They paid an
informal visit in the Winter of 1924
as to East Africa and the Sudan, but
1t was primarily q shooting trip with
comparatively few official engage
ments. They had q great time being
welcomed at Mobasa, where they
landed, with native dance in which
Kiyuku silt walkers wearing gilt
gowns, in which were stuck flaming
candles was an outstanding feature.
Each Bag Rhinoceros.
Christmas was spent with the Gov
ernor of Knya at Nairobi and the
next day the party set out on shoot.
ing expedition, in which the duchess
fully held her own with small game
and, like her husband, bagged a rhi-
noceros. The duke on this trip showed
surprising powers Of physical endur-
ance and refused to do his hunting
by motor car, going out each day afoot.
He was determined to add a lion to
his bag. The easy way to do so is the
bona" method, in which the hunters
inclose themselves safely in a thorn
fence which the lion cannot penetrate,
leaving a dead animal outside as a
decoy and sit inside at night with a
rifle and torch waiting until the lion
gives chance for shot at short
range. But the duke didn't consider
this way fair to the lion and insisted
on the more strenuous and danger
Gus method Of hunting by day and
afoot, and was rewarded with a bag
of two lions.
The duke and duchess went to
Uganda from Kenya, sailing over Lake
Victoria Nyanza with an escort of 200
native war canoes. The trip ended
with visit to Khartoum, after which
the party returned home, having seen
the best side Of one portion OF Britain's
African empire.
In January, 1927, the duke and
duchess made an official visit to Au-
stralia and New Zealand. They trav-
eled aboard the cruiser Renown and
first called at Jamaica, then went
through the Panama Canal to the
Marquesas Islands, the former home of
Robert Louis Stevenson, and then to
Suva, in the Fijis. Here the duke re-
ceived from a native chief a sperm
whales tooth as an emblem of loyalty
and had to drink from a loving cup a
native liquor called "kava,' which is
anything but tasteful to white people.
Receive Warm Welcome.
They reached New Zealand In Febru-
ary and remained there a month tour
ing the entire country. and everywhere
were received with a warm welcome by
the inhabitants. although the duchess
was absent from several public func-
tions owing to an attack of tonsilitis.
The royal couple, by their unaffected
ness and modesty, made considerable of
an impression on the independent New
ZealanderS, who voted the duke good
scout" and the duchess peaches"
1t was the same in Australia where
the duke inaugurated the new Par
lament buildings at Canberra, the
capital Of the Australian Common
wealth. The duke formally unlocked
the doors Of the new Parliament house
and unveiled q statue of his father,
George v. while Dame Nellie Melba,
Australia's greatest singer. led in the
singing Of the national anthem. This
was the chief event of the Australian
tour but there were many others, such
as a kangaroo hunt, a visit to the
gold fields at Bendogo. where the
duchess was presented with a gold
nugget and review at Melbourne of
$4,000 soldiers. the tour concluding
with visit to Tasmania.
When the duke reached home again
he declared in a speech:
Every place we visited we were
deeply moved by the demonstrations
of affectionate loyalty to the throne
with which we were greeted. They
far exceeded anything we imagined
and throughout the tour we were con-
scious Of one feeling, that we were
among our own kith and kin"
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