PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1932, Page 7

PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

DETECTIVE'S REMINISCENCES

LONDON, May 12,

The story of a plot to assassinate the Prince of Wales while in New York in 1919 is told by Colonel Norman Thwaites, one of tile Prince's bodyguard during his Canadian-American trip, in a book of reminiscences.

It was discovered, lie says, that the rooms allotted to the Irish Conference at the Waldorf Hotel were situated beneath the Prince's, and it was reported that a desperado had secured admission and was determined to bomb the Prince's quarters. Investigations partially confirmed the allegations, and the conference immediately told the man to "get to Hell out of this."

Colonel Thwaitcs recalls that the 10-vear-old Lady Anne Cavendish, youngest daughter of the Governor-General of Canada from 1916 to 1921, while the company was dancing at Government House, Ottawa, partnered a be-medalled and uniformed general. The Prince, clad in mufti, on asking her to dance, received the tart reply: "Can't you see I am dancing with a soldier!"

The Prince's naturalness was illustrated at an informal dance at Washington, where a girl with no pretensions to inclusion in the smart set replied to the Prince's request for a dance: Ido not know how to behave with so don't think me rudo if I am just myself." ~ , „ . Within five, minutes they were talking like friends from the cradle. The Prince later paid her and her mother the only visit outside his schedule.