A RENEGADE PRINCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 33, 13 May 1916, Page 4

A RENEGADE PRINCE.

According to recent advice: from Scotland, the Seaforth Highlanders regard their late Colonel-in-Charge (the j Duke of Albany) with the bitterest hatred, as the following extract from a newspaper received by Colonel Por- . ter will show: “The regiment in which we in this district (Nairnshire) are specially interested is officially designated the ‘Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs—■•the Duke of Albany’s).’ Who is the , Duke of j Albany? The present holder of fho title was born in 1884, in England, and bis father was H.R.H. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. In 1900 he succeed-; ed to the Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the death of his uncle, j Duke Alfred, the late Duke of Edin- 1 burgh. He was made a Knight of the Garter, G.C.V.0., arid Colonel-in-j Chief of the Seaforth Highlanders. The Duke of Albany retains the rank, j style and dignity of ‘Royal Highness’ j and ‘Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,’ and holds' peerages of great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. He is now actu-j ally in command of Gcnhan troops in; the field against us, notwithstandingthe fact that ho is a natural-born j British subject. He may, for all we| know, have directed his men against the famous regiment that bears his ! name. The Duke of Albany i s a ‘"traitor, and, although be is no longer Colonel-in-Chief of the Seaforth Highlanders, the sooner they get lid of his | name the better. He was deprived of his garter in May last, but he is still a British prince and peer. There is something incongruous in a British prince fighting against the King and people of the British Empire, and it is hard on a gallant Scottish regiment to be linked in any way with a reheU gade. The Seaforth Highlanders take no stock ( in traitors, either of high or low degree.”. .