Evening star., 1937-04-25
BY JESSIE FANT EVANS.

That fate is still the juggler of the
lives and destinies of royal perSonages
as well as of their subjects is again
being demonstrated upon May IL when
George vi, with his consort, Queen
Elizabeth, and caeir two daughters,
the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret,
will become the cynosure of the world
because of the unprecedented circum-
stances responsible for the corona
ton ceremonies of this eventful day.
AS his name indicates, the new King
is the sixth George of the House CT
Hanover. which came to be the ruling
dynasty of England with the acceS-
sion of George I to England's throne
In August, 1714.
George I was not only the great
grandson of James of England, but
also succeeded his father as elector of
Hanover, Germany, in 1898, three
years before he was officially declared
the heir to the British throne His
accession represented England's choice
OF the White Horse of Hanover over
the White Rose of Stuart. This deci-
sion was really legally reached in 17Ol
by the act of settlement when Parlia-
ment took unto itself the right to de-
termine the succession to the throne
and decided in favor of the House of
Hanover against James III and VIII
Of the Stuart line.
Queen Locked in Castle.
When the new monarch arrived IN
England for his coronation he brought
1f
hundred persons, including two
Turkish pages and one washerwoman,"
none of whom could speak or under
stand the language of the country
over which their royal master was to
reign. The accession was also entirely
lacking IN glamour, for he had no
queen, his divorced wife, Sophia Doro-
thea, being cruelty kept prisoner in
North Germany, Never permitted to
set foot outside the castle where she
was confined, she was even deprived
of visits from her children, one of
whom, as George II, was destined to
rule over the English people.
Unable to speak English himself
and probably too old to learn a new
language had he invinced the slightest
interest in so doing, George I was in
different because of language barriers
about presiding over the council of his
ministers. In the Kings absence the
leading minister took precedence for
him in receiving the reports Thus
from his negative attitude as a sover-
elgn, the practice of Englands cabinet
system of government developed and
the Office of prime minister, although
unknown to the constitution came
into being.
Walpole, who as chancellor of the
exchequer and first lord of the treas
ury under this first monarch of the
Guelph family, is credited with saw
ing England from financial disaster
and panic upon the collapse of the
sensational South Sea speculations has
been quoted as saying that he con
trolled his majesty by bad Latin and
punch"
George II, like his father George I,
was born in Hanover, being 81 years
old at the time of his royal parents
accession to the British throne, and
almost as German in viewpoint. His
English conversation always main
tanned strong accent of the Rhine
land.
His father had hated the pageantry
so dear to the heart of the English
people, but his son, totally lacking in
sense of humor, was keen to resent
the slightest affront to his royal dig
nifty, even in courtiers Jest.
The coronation of George III, first
OF the house of Hanover to be born
and bred in England, was acclaimed
with rejoicing by the people, who
hailed him as "a true-born English
man" Allan Ramsay's coronation
portrait shows him to have been fair
and fresh-colored, with fine teeth. blue
eyes and light auburn hair which grew
very handsomely to his face" as he
was later described.
There was great popular interest in