WINDSOR IS ROYAL FAMILY "HOME."
NO APFECTION FOR BUSK5NGHAM PALACE When King George and Queen 'Elizaheth get to Pretoria on their South African tour next year they are likely to meet with a reminder of their own home town. Since they have residences in various parts of the country there are several places that might claim to be their home. And for some of them the Royal Family has, or has had, a speeial fondness, writes Harold Hobson in the Christian Science Monitor. Queen Vifctoria 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 estat^s. The place with which, in modern times, the British Royal House has been most elosely 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 knowri' through every vicissitude of fortune for nearly a tbousand years is Windsor Castle. 'It is to the great embrasured walls, the towers, and turrents of Windsor, close by the most famous school in the world — Eto'n, that mem'bers of the family escape for rest and recreation twhenever thfy •can sna^ch a week-end 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 FfrangconDavies, one of the most celebrated of British actresses, is arranging to give a gala performance of her highly stylized production of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in Pretoria during the tour cf 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 meet Dame Laura Knight, the circus artist, who is to be the offlcial painter of the roval tour.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 7
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351WINDSOR IS ROYAL FAMILY "HOME." Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 7
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