PRINCE’S SPEECHES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1921, Page 6

PRINCE’S SPEECHES.

ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS. During the visit of the Prince of Wales, and since, there has been much discussion as to whether he or an admirable secretary is the author of the Prince’s excellent speeches. The point is dealt with by Sir Henry Lucy, who, apropos of some coming functions at which the Prince was to speak, wrote that as a speaker His Royal Highness is admirably prepared and appreciably improving. “There lias been doubt among the public whether his speeches, brief, tactful, and to the point, are prepared for him by another hand and read from manuscript, as the King reads his speech from the Throne. There is no foundation for the not unnatural suspicion. The Prince’s speeches are entirely his own composition, and are delivered with elocutionary art that may be trained, and in a voice whose clearness and far-reach-ing powers are certainly natural. Recently the guest at a regimental dinner, he, on rising to respond to a toast, began by saying that he had prepared a speech and brought the notes with him. •But,’ he added, T am not going to use them; I am just going to talk to my comrades.’ He forthwith proceeded to do so, to the delight of his hosts.”