ROYAL FAMILY “HOME”
AFFECTION FOR WINDSOR CASTLE
ESCAPE FOR REST AND RECREATION
When King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Pretoria on their South African tour this* year they are likely to meet with a reminder of their own home town. Since they have residences in various parts of England there are several places that might claim to be their home. And for some of them the Royal Family has, or has had, a special fondness, writes Harold Hobson in the Christian Science Monitor.
Queen Victoria particularly liked Osborne, which is now a naval training college. Edward VII never was so happy as when at Sandringham in Norfolk, where he could lead the life of a well-to-do country gentleman—riding and looking over his estates.
The place with which, in modern times, the British Royal House has been most closely associated—namely, Buckingham Palace—is, curiously enough, one for which no one has ever had much affection. When it was built it was called, rather contemptuously, “His Majesty’s Palace at Pimlico.” But all these are residences with which the Royal Family has become connected only in comparatively recent times. The home that British royalty has known through every vicissitude of fortune for nearly a thousand years is Windsor Castle. It is to the great embrasured walls, the towers and turrets of Windsor, close by the most famous school in the world—Eton, that members of the family escape for rest and recreation whenever they can snatch a weekout out of London. Windsor is peculiarly their home.
It is the name of Windsor that they will see placarded over the Walls of Pretoria. For Gwen Ffrang-con-Davies, one of the most' celebrated of British actresses, is arranging to give a gala performance of her highly stylised production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Pretoria during the tour of the King and Queen. Miss Ffrangcon-Davies is now in England for a few weeks, and I. saw, her while she was on her way to Malvern to aneet Dame Laura Knight, the circus artist, who is to be the official painter of the royal tour.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 6
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348ROYAL FAMILY “HOME” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 6
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