THE PRINCE’S NAME.
NEVER “EDDIE.” DAVID OF THE PSALMS. As the public has now learned that the Prince of Wales is called “David” by his relatives, and never “Eddie,” there will be some interest in the Dowager Lady Radnor’s claim, in- her newly published book of reminiscences, that it was she who suggested this name (says the London Evening Standard). Lady Radnor believes that Britons are descended from the ten lost tribes, and the Royal Family from King David of (lie Psalms, and so sent a message to the Queen (then Duchess of York) asking that if a son were born to her he should be called David. The Duchess liked the name, but “Wondered what reason she could give” for calling her son by it. Lady Radnor then suggested that it could be included amoug the'other names of the four patron saints of these islands, and that, she writes, “is how the Prince of Wales carno by the name of David.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3762, 3 March 1928, Page 4
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162THE PRINCE’S NAME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3762, 3 March 1928, Page 4
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