A ROYAL HEIRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1057, 22 August 1930, Page 1

A ROYAL HEIRESS

Daughter Bom to Duchess EMPIRE-WIDE JUBILATION Sister for Princess “Betty” rIE expected news from Glamis Castle of the birth of a Royal child was sent out last evening;, when the Duchess of York presented the Duke with a daughter. Congratulations are now pouring in to the Duke and Duchess, their Majesties the King and Queen being the first to telegraph.

United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 1. p.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Duchess of York today gave birth to a daughter. Both are progressing satisfactorily. When it was announced that news was expected from Glamis Castle shortly, the post office officials and others hastened to their posts. It was <x dismal night and rain was falling, but many people were waiting expectantly at Glamis. The news was flashed to the King and Queen at Sandringham, whence their Majesties sent their congratulations. The village street was still a scene of bustle and excitement at midnight. People were hanging out flags and lighting beacons. The child’s birthday coincides with that of her cousin, Princess Mary's second son, Gerald, who is six years old on Thursday. The news was received at Mansion House, London, shortly after midnight, after which the Lord Mayor’s son brought out the official message signed by Mr. J. R. Clynes, and attached it in a wooden frame to the wall outside. Mr. J. R. Clynes. in a message, referred to the Duchess as having “safely delivered of a princess.” The Lord Mayor sent a message; “The citizens of London are delighted by the news.” An official notice was also posted at Whitehall on the main door of the Home Office facing the Cenotaph. The latest from Glamis says the church bells were ringing long after midnight through the whole district for the first time since the peace celebrations in 1919. A searchlight is flashing the nev% across the sky. Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of York, who is 30 years of age, is now the mother of two daughters, the elder being Princess Elizabeth, aged four. Before her marriage the Duchess was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore. She was born at St. Paul's, Walderrbury, the Hertfordshire home of her father, the fourteenth Earl, but much of her early life was spent at Glamis Castle, the most famous family seat in Scotland and the traditional scene of Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan. Lady Elizabeth was married to the Duke of York In April, 1923. In December of that year the Royal couple made a tour of East Africa., and less than a year after the birth of little

Princess Elizabeth they embarked upon their tour of Australia and New Zealand. The birth of the Duchess of York’s younger daughter, in anticipation of which she retired to historic Glamis,

will have been announced by the lighting - of a chain of signal fires on the Scottish hills. These picturesque beacons will be visible hundreds of miles from Glamis and pin-points of light will convey to ships far out on the North Sea the glad tidings of a happy event.

Had the ydungest child of their Royal Highnesses been a male, he would have been heir to his father’s and estate, and in the direct succession to the Throne of Great Britain. Unless an heir is born at some future date, Princess Elizabeth will retain that Royal status.