Evening star., 1936-01-21
PRINCE TRAINED
!, FOR ROLE Of KING
Served Throughout War in
France and Later Trav-
eled Over Kingdom.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LQWDON.-The fierce glare ol puo-
Ncity focused on the Prince OF Wales
now assuming the throne as hlae :
Emperor-by the press and the people
Of almost all the literate world began
playinr upon him Al years ago this
coming June.
There were telegraphs and fast
working printing presses in those
days. lust as there are now, but the
flrst people outside the royal family
= who knew that prince had been
born into the direct line Of success
sion to the British throne, heard OF
It as their ancestors had learned of
such happy events for ages-from the
shouts and cries of speeding horse
man.
This horseman, a gentleman who
had proudly predicted that the first
Of Queen Victoria's great grandchil-
dren would be son, posted himself
outside White Lodge, Richmond, as
he learned that the now Queen Mary
was to have her accouchement there.
Rode Furiously to London.
In the early hours of the morn
ing of June %, 1894, the prince was
born. Jumping into the saddle, the
horsemen rode furiously into london,
few miles down the Thames, shout
ing as he went, "A prince! A prince"
The noise of his voice and clatter Of
his horses galloping hoofs awoke
dwellers all along his route. To the
day of his death this gentleman-crier
boasted that he was the first to an
nounce the princes birth.
He was right, so far as those who
lived near Richmond were concerned,
but London first got the news by tele-
graph. BY the time work people had
set out for their shops and desks and
the churches in London and through
the rolling green countryside of Eng
land were ringing a gladstone ac-
clamation
The public enthusiasm for the
Prince of Wales which began that
day as a national thing grew to be
international His popularity knows
by millions of people who do not
speak his language or know anything
much about the empire and the sub
jects he is destined one day to call
his own.
Queen Victoria Absent.
Queen Victoria was not present
at the birth of her great-grandson,
but the old and feeble sovereign was
one OF the first to 60 to Richmond
to see him. She was staying at
Windsor Castle. several miles farther
up the Thames, at the time. and drove
over by carriage to hold the new
born prince in her arms. on the second
day after his entry into the world
His two grandmothers, the Princess
OF Wales afterwards Queen Alex
andra) and the Duchess of Teck,
looked upon his birth. and. with the
nurse, carried the happy news to a
nearby room where the boys father
and his grandfather. later King Ed
ward, paced the floor nervously like
fathers and grandfathers of commoner
clay the world over.
Democratic peoples who live else
where than in Europe are often
amused at the multiplicity of names
which are wished upon aristocratic
babies, and especially royal ones. at
the baptismal fonts of countries that
support monarchies. The Prince of
Wales. with seven Christian names
Edward Albert Christian George An
drew Patrick David-has been an es-
pecial inspiration of smiles by faces
that are identified to their democratic
fellow men by one of two. or, at most,
three Christian appellations.
Behind ali of these names. when
he is formally designated in print. is
q cluster of anywhere from 20 to SO
initials, abbreviations of the sundry
knighthoods and orders and decora-
tions that have been conferred upon
him by his own sovereign parent and
by the rulers of many friendly lands.
Bears Grandfather's Name.
Each Of his seven Christian titles
represents persons or peoples dear to
the hearts of his parents. Edward, the
foremost Of his names--the only one
by which he is generally expected to
be known when he ascends the throne
comes from his grandfather, King
Edward VII, so many Of whose traits
and attractive characteristics the fu-
.ture Edward VIII has inherited.
. He was called Albert after his great
grandfather, the prince consort of
Queen Victoria. He was named Chris
tian after the monarch who sat upon
the throne of Denmark, from whose
royal family his grandmother, the late
Queen Dowager Alexandra, came to
England to become bride. The other |
four names are those of the patron
saints of the countries that compose
the United Kingdom-George for Eng
land, Andrew for Scotland, Patrick for
Ireland and David for Wales.
To the world the Prince is known
by his first name. He signs himself
edward p" but it is by his last
name that his family and his intimate
friends call him. Among kin and
friends, he Is simply David" and so
he will continue to be known until he
becomes ''your majesty" to every one.
With Queen Victoria he was, of
course. the favorite, destined some day
to sit upon her throne. Perhaps she
admired his iron will, still strong
part OF his makeup, for the little
Prince. with his golden curls, was one
Of the few who would refuse to do
what granny" wanted done, and not
be punished.
Had Will of His Own.
He was not stubborn child. On
the contrary, he was unusually amen
able to the wishes ana requests Of
others, as he remains today, but he
had . will Of his own and early learned
the strength Of the word no." With
all his renowned smile, his eagerness
to fulfill more than hls duties, his
democratic spirit and manners. he still
Knows how and when to use, with un-
will, that short, forceful word.
a. IJntil he was ready to take up coll