Press Tributes to Happy Royal Couple

Grey River Argus, 16 November 1948, Page 5

Press Tributes to Happy Royal Couple

(Rec. 9.0) LONDON, Noy. 15 It is more than 100 years since the succession to the Throne was secured through the female line says the Daily Mail. It was in Noyembei 1840, that the Princess Royal was born to Queen Victoria and Pnnce Albert, and in the following. November, King Edward VII was bom. “The birth of a Prince is an event which will stn /n® B r . tish people’s hearts. This baby destined to wear the Crown, sa.> the newspaper. The Daily Express says: /'Congratulations, Princess Elizabeth! The. Btitish people join in your happiness. They hope the boy will grow tip 1 strong and vigorous, to share their struggles and achievements in tne exciting years ahead.” The Times in an editorial, referred to “thp national and Imperial eyent which can, for the moment, divert the people’s thoughts from the acrimonies of a domestic argument, and from the anxieties of the international scene. The infant Prince, through his father, will bring to the Throne, for the first time smee the death of King Canute, in 1042, a family derived in direct male descent from the Danish race, which is creditzed with a full half share in the ancestry of the English. Some day, the Prince may inaugurate a dynasty bearing the name of Mountbatten, which in the last half century has been surpassed by none in its record of public service.