THE KING SEEKS SUNSHINE
MET with the subdued greetings of subjects who lined the “secret” ways, King George, on Saturday, left Buckingham Palace and. the mists of London for Bognor, where it is hoped that he will he restored once more to strength by sunshine and the health-giving Channel air. For almost three months now he has been called upon to fight a perilous sickness in the midst of the rigours of the English winter, and at times it seemed as if his constitution would not be able to resist the onslaught that was being made upon it. Each day, in stormy weather, the anxious throngs assembled outside the palace to hear the latest news. Those days of anxiety are now over; hut it will be a long time yet before the King will be able to play his old part in the life of the nation.
England’s winter is not yet over, but the people know that whatever sunshine may be had will be the King’s at Bognor. Tliis watering-place on the coast of Sussex overlooks the Channel, and the fresh winds blowing in off the sea will he the finest tonic in the world for the Royal convalescent. Bognor was flooded with sunshine when he arrived, surely a happy augury. The clean Sussex air is the sweetest in England, and poets have sung often of the pastoral beauties of tlie county. The broad downs and the browsing sheep . . . these are the things that will he meeting the eyes of the King later on. The illness of King George has done much to bring attention to the status of the monarchy in England. The demonstrated anxiety of the people was not only a tribute to a man beloved, hut also a tribute to an institution which is dear to British hearts. The King’s unremitting service was always recognised, hut not in a spectacular way until there was danger that so great a worker for the Empire was menaced by death. Unexpressed admiration then gave place to sympathetic solicitude, and this concern has remained with the people right from the anxious days of December.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 585, 11 February 1929, Page 8
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