IN PLACE OF KING’S SON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 10

IN PLACE OF KING’S SON

FROM MINER’S HOUSE TO ROYAL PALACE There is at present residing in * small two-apartment house in tfa miners’ rows at Annbank. Ayrshire, i woman who will shortly ride along it* “Royal Mile” to Holyrood Palsr*. Edinburgh, once the home of Scor n Royalty, in a state coach, who will » j escorted by a detachment of cavers and who will be welcomed to the flat: ace, where she will reside for a P" night, with a salute of guns. She is Mrs. Brown, wife of hr. Tames Brown, the member for So ” Ayrshire, who is to be this year’s Lori High Commissioner of the Generai Assembly of the Church of Scoti**» f When in residence at Holyrood Pi“ ace. where she will be taking the oltfl of the Duchess of York, while her & miner husband takes the place of £ Duke of York, Mrs. Brown will h waited on by scores of servants. will he referred to deferentially I the dignitaries of the Church and tii pick of Scottish aristocrats as Grace.” When it is all over she will retti to the house in the miners’ rowf t Annbank. This house is just an f dinary miner's dwelling, and is. * fact, the one in which Mr. and > - Brown lived when he earned his •• v ing as a miner in the local pit. 0* either side of it are the houses of o’ - miners and their families, and L'' Brown’s neighbours are the j wives who shared her sorrows and T'" i in the days when “Jimmy Broon. 5 they call their M.P. and neighbour. still a working miner. Mrs. Brown b* no wish to leave the little abode, has her husband. They both feel their happiest days were spent tber*" the days when he was fighting to* : : miners as their agent and when h" he was seeking a seat in Parlianr'