PRINCE’S MAIL BAG

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1931, Page 6

PRINCE’S MAIL BAG

GREAT VARIETY OF LETTERS.

Alost distinguished people have extraordinary postbags,, but J. do not suppose anybody in the world receives such a large and such a .strangely assorted mail as the Prince of Wales .(says a writer in the “Sunday Chronicle”)'- I am tqjld that there is a person living in Glasgow who has written to his Royal Highness every day for the last ten. years. The letters are anonymous, but judging by the writing, the eccentric correspondent is an elderly woman. The postmark is always Glasgow, except in the mouth of August, when it changes t 0 llk ley, in England.

Unlike most elderly woman, the Glasgow correspondent is commendably brief. She always begins, “My dear Prince,” and then follows a text from the Bible, almost always from the Book of Revelations. That is all. The other regular correspondent to the Prince is even queerer. ' Every month the Prince receives an envelope with the Hamburg postmark containing a 100-mark note. There is no covering letter, but the envelope is addressed in an unmistakeably Teutonic hand. This money has been received ever since the armistice.

Naturally the Prince does not wish to accept the 'equivalent of £5 every month from an anonymous stranger. As the best way out, it is paid into the fund from which his Royal Highness dispenses charity.