ROYAL FAMILY EVENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 11

ROYAL FAMILY EVENT

HOME SECRETARY EXPECTS CALL TO GLAMIS ANCIENT CUSTOM OBSERVED LONDON, Monday. The “News-Chronicle” states that the Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. Clvnes, '’ho is at Glamis, has arranged to be summoned at any moment to the Castle in connection with the expected accouchement of the Duchess of York. for many years it has been the custom at an accouchement in the y°Yal Family which may affect the succession to the Throne, to have a -unister of the Crown present, as an established official precaution against upon the nation such as are alleged to have taken place in matory. What occurred at the birth in xr® Edward VII., is thus described Michael MacDonough’s book. ane English King,” published a few months ago: The happy event took place at “tKmgham Palace. In accordance Y . ancient custom, the Government r a ® re P re sent c d at the birth of an heir in* ! T hrone. This is traditionally aDDP* 6C * to prevent the danger, which J2£* rs to have been very real in chi!* Val times, of a supposititious PfJi TJle Minister, fe’ir Robert rha and k°rd Lyndliurst, the Lord i()in” Cellor ’ were waiting in a room adueons bedchamber, and tuj i - 10 nurse, very soon, brought in l w, f lnfant * they signed the declaration male heir to the Throne was