Only Married Prince.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 1

Only Married Prince.

—■— I Keenly Interested in Industrial i Progress of Empire. J i The Duke and Duchess bate already been East Alrica. i together. Now I hey arc .sleaunng round the outer empire C in the sihery battle-vrniM-r li<n««n. ,Uver the. wintry > Atlantic they went, stopping to look at .lainaica, that jewel ' in the Caribbean Sea, an outpost picked up long ago by Ihe. ( British sea adventurers »h<i made the Empire Then through < Ibe Panama Canal Ibey came, v>ith brief stops at (be Marquesas- and at before their arrhal at Auckland this ( morning. < New Zealand will be interested in Ibe Duke of York as ' a man. the only married unc of the Kind's four wns. He \ is more self-contained Ihaii his elder brother, the Prince of Wale*; less dashing, but morn *( reflective. He ha*> at times a. ( r>lcru look, wbich is, perhaps, more than half shyness. He does nut . smile so easily, but when he does it is a. charming: smile which lights up his eyes at the wune time that it moves his lips. He used to be rather shy. His first public appearances must have i been a great ordeal for Jiim. But he ha* grit-and nerve. He cured himself of ncrvoasness by oppli- ( cation; and now he is cool and he has poise. His speeches are plain and to the point. His qualities :ltc solid ones. The Earl of Strathmorc described him in a letter to an old retainer, at the when the Duke's engagement to Lady Elizabeth was announced, "as a fine type of the young Englishman/' with "a high sense of duty," and disclosed the secret that the Duke ' had been a devoted suitor for < three years—a splendid tribute to his loyalty, and, incidentally, his determined character. He played I football with the village boys at Sandringbaum He learned to ride, and acquired a firm «cat, which has stood him in good sjead in the hunting field. WingrGonimander Ix«uis Grcig t«ught i?m, as be ' taught the Prince of JWalcs, how Jo win, and how to lose, like a . sfrortsman —the finest "lesson in the conduct of life that any English boy can haveHe went to Osborne and Dart- < mouth; passed ou1; set forth in < tlie Cumberland for his first cruise, , went to the West Indies, Canada and Newfoundland; and in Sep- ( tember, IJU.4, landed «rt Aberdeen 4 with appendicitis, an iljness which undermined his health for soTiie years. He was on his ship, a sublieutenant, at dutJandj and won 1 1./ord Jellicoe's commendation. But he had been, far from well -all these war years, and - eventually, alter one operation and more than one breakdown, he had to give up his naval career, and take to the Air Service, He really began life, in it* widest sense, when he went mi", residence al Cambridge with his brother, Prince Henry, with Wing-Commandcr (then Major) Louis Greig in attendance. There he gained the interests which later made them call him " the industrial Prince." He must have visited hundreds of factories over the length and breadth of the British Isles in the last six Tears. He ha* gone down a coal mine, driven an engine, spoken at seore- oi working men's clubs, public functions. His visits to workshops are never stiffly formaL He talks with 1 '■..■ workers, greets old .acquaintances, has always a ke< n eyeopen for the ei-Seryice men. His preferences in sporl ar< I<t lawn tennis and squash rackets. He practises aluio-t daily, and plays a hard game. He used to be keen on cricket—he otiee did the hat trick by taking the wickets of ihe Kin-. Prince Arthur of Connaught, and the Prince of Wales on the j»n<-h on the slope below Windsor Castle—but he seldom play now. He is not so keen a horseman as the Prince of Wale-. <>i -<• enthusiastic a dancer a> Prince <te<«rge. but he 1- an <v...-: ■notorial, a fair shot, and probably the best angler in lh< !>'■■.• Family. He is, incidentally, the only aeronaut in the K">;i! circle. He won his wing they Mere not presented t" h \>.