MAY GO TO SCHOOL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1943, Page 4

MAY GO TO SCHOOL

PRINCESS ELIZABETH. The possibility that Princess _ Elizabeth may complete her education by attending boarding school and later a university was suggested during the second reading debate in the Regency Pill in the House of Commons, says a London correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald.” The Bill provides for Princess Elizabeth, as Heiress Presumptive to the Throne, to be-appointed a Councillor of State on reaching 18 on April 21 next. The deputy-leader of the Labour Party, Mr Arthur Greenwood, said he “would take the opportunity to suggest most humbly that the Princess’s future education might well be conducted in association and co-operation with others of her own age.”

He added that the knowledge and experience of life which comradeship would give the Princess would be of enormous assistance to her in the greater responsibilities she might one day have to bear’.

The Daily Mirror* comments: “Judging by ordinary standards, the Princess’ life has been very strictly disciplined. Except for contact with country girls who are members of the same guides’ and rangers’ troops, she has had little opportunity for mixing with people of her own age. Most of her day is occupied with solitary siudies. under a governess and.tutors.”