THE ROYAL FAMILY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 9

THE ROYAL FAMILY

PRINCES AND DOMINIONS QUEEN'S PUBLIC WORK (From "Tho Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 27th March. It. is understood thai the King will go to Windsor Castle for a short stay when ho is well enough to leave lWnor. If all goes satisfactorily this will probably be at the end of A-iril or tho beginning of Hay. * The King wishes the Ascot r.-ien-eourse procession to ta.l<c place -is usual, although ho will „ot ho able to take part in it. According to present, arrangements tho Queen and the Prince of Wales will bo at the meeting, aud there will be a Royal procession on two days— probably on Tuesday and Thursday, IStii arid -Oth June.

Tho Queen has paid several visits (o Windsor recently and a number oC improvements have been carried out under her direction. The most notable is in tho magnificent grand corridor, which has been entirely redecorated. It is understood that considerable attention has been paid to the future of tho Duko of York, tho Duko of Gloucester, and Princo George, and the possibility of their serving abroad as representatives of His Majesty. Although no definite plans have been prepared, it is understood thai. the King has long considered the question of his representation in the Dominions and colonies, and it is believed that when suitable vacancies occur they may be filled by members of the Royal Family. J

Princo George's new position at the I'oreigu Offico will strengthen his qualifications for such a post. It is probable that later he will be transferred to some other Government department, so that when tho timo comes for him to assume abroad tho responsibilities of a personal representative of the King, ho will be fully equipped, tight to ten years are mentioned as a period of training. Prince Arthur of Connaught proved himself a very able representative of tho King as a Governor-General of South Africa., where tho Earl of Ath.lono and Princess Alice are forging another strong link of affection between tho Throne and the people of the Dominion. PRINCE AS LANDLORD. Sir Arthur Quillor-Couch, presiding ] at the annual dinner of the London Cornish Association, referred to the Prince of Wales as a landlord. 'The small profiteer," ho said comes down and desecrates our coast with pink bungalows so that one would almost, think that Cornwall, besides daffodils and broccoli, grew pink bungalows. Kvcn worse is tho speculativo man who takes a piece of Cornish

coast and cuts off our cliff tracks and cuts off the ground upon which our fishermen dry their nets in the hope of selling it at a profit to some hotel. Wo have good landlords in Cornwall who. do not allow this sort of thing, and chief among our landlords is His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Cornwall, who is a model landlord. Cornwall has a character to lose, and these landlords, and especially our Prince, aro not protecting Cornwall | alone, but are developing Cornwall along the right lines." The Queeu will open the new wing of tho Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women, Eustace road, N.W., on Bth May. Mrs. Philip Snowden, presiding at the annual meeting of the hospital paid this tribute to tho Queen: "Anyone who has been in close touch with public work cannot fail to have la-en almost amazed at the Queen's un'irmg activity for any good cause. Had the Queen been an ordinary wom-iti she would have made a marvellous leader m any cause which had for its purpose the alleviation of the lot of women less fortunate than herself."