JUBILEE YEAR GIFT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 12

JUBILEE YEAR GIFT

4, Royal Warrant Holders’ Association (From a Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) London, December 15. A large replica of the King's house —big enough for visitors to walk about inside—will shortly be exhibited in the London Olympia. The King’s house, designed to be the perfect modern home, is being built, furnished and endowed as a jubilee gift to his Majesty from the Royal Warrant-Holders’ Association. While visitors are admiring the replica in the exhibition hall, architects and builders wll be at work on the real house. The site, in Surrey, just outside London, has • been given by ’Lord Iveagh, head of the brewing family of Guinness. All the materials, the labour, and the furniture, for this wonder-house, are being supplied by holders of the Royal Warrant. Every detail of design and furnishing will be submitted to the King for his approval. An endowment fund will make tlie property free of all charges in perpetuity. The King will not himself live in the King’s house. It is intended “for the accommodation of anv person whom his Majesty may think worthy of this indication of the Royal favour.”

This means that the new house will be a residence in the King’s gift, like the apartments and small houses at Hampton Court and St. James’s Palace. Some' of these are occupied by members of the Royal Family who have no official residences of their own. But most of the apartments are "given to retired court officials and widows of famous soldiers. There are not very many of these houses and apartments, and the King usually gives them (0 tenants who could not afford anything but. a very modest home out of their own resources.

The Royal Warrant-Holders, who have given this original jubilee present. to the King, are his Majesty’s tradesmen of all kinds and degrees. They are appointed by Royal Warrant to supply the court with the goods in which they deal A small newsagent's shop has the right to use the Royal Arms, and among 1500 other traders who hold the warrant are a lamprey pie-maker and a, “horse milliner,” whose privilege is to supply rosettes and ribbons for the decoration of the Royal coaches.