GIRL’S GIFT TO PRINCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1921, Page 6

GIRL’S GIFT TO PRINCE.

HUNTING DAY INCIDENT. " SPRIGS OF ROSEMARY. In an old-fashioned farm, down an oldfashioned lane, the Pince of Wales accepted a love token of rosemary from the 13-year-old daughter of the farmer in whose stables the Royal hunters had been stalled and fed over-night in readiness for the day’s run with the hounds. The Prince, with Prince Henry, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and two equerries, went by motor-car from London in the morning to join the Hertfordshire Hunt at Tilsworth, near Leighton Buzzard. When their car was pulled up at crossroads they found they were still half a mile from Tilsworth Green Farm, but the young Princes decided to trudge it tlu'ough the slush and melting snow. There were smiles and blushes as they pushed their way through a crowd' of young men and maidens. At the old-fashioned thatched farmhouse, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gurney, the Prince of Wales put on his riding" coat in the parlor, while his brother, less bashful, changed intc pink in the farmyard in front of the crowd. Going through the kitchen, the Prince of Wales noticed the old-fashioned fireplace and a cauldron suspended over the log fire. The midday meal was being cooked, and the Prince commented on the quaintness of the fireplace and the odor of the appetising dish. “It smells good,” he said to Mrs. Gurney. In the farmyard, before he mounted the Prince was approached by little Miss Amy Gurney, who shyly offered him two sprigs of rosemary, and Mrs. Bishop, a neighbor, presented him with another sprig. There were many smiles among the crowd of young men and women standing by, as the Prince accepted these tokens o£ “remembrance, fidelity, constancy.” \ At Egginton the Prince of Wales had a little spill, his horse refusing a fence, but he merely laughed as he remounted, with nothing worse than a soiled coat.