PRINCE OF WALES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18912, 29 January 1927, Page 10

PRINCE OF WALES.

ALE IN A TAVERN. GATHERING OF EX-SERVICE MEN. (FROM OCa OWN COSRESFOSDEXT.) LONDON, December 13. There were great scenes of enthusiasm at Stepney Green, E., the other night when the Prince of Wales paid a surprise visit to a concert of the Mile End branch of the British Legion, held in Christ Church Parish nail. Some hundreds of ex-Service men were present. The Prince met many men who had been at Zeebrugge. Some of them' arc unemployed, and he expressed keen interest in their lotDuring an interval the Prince, on the invitation of Councillor J. F. -Mead (licensee of the Bricklayers' Arms—whose work for London hospitals is well known) went across to the tavern and drank a glass of ale. A number of people was in the bar, and the Prince shook hands with many of them. He invited some to have a drink with him. Going through a private entrance into the bar itself, the Prince drew himself a glass of ale and drank some of it. The glass was then handed round. The • Prince returned to the concert hall, and stayed till the end of the programme. At the finish "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" was sung as it was never sung before. A dense crowd cheered him as he came out, and his motor-car had to be pushed through the packed streets by willing volunteers. . A club is to be erected for the Mile End branch of the British Legion from funds given by. Mr Teddy Hulton, and the Prince expressed his intention of attending the opening ceremony in the spring. The Prince's Dancing Partners. Another British Legion function attended by the Prince of Wales was a dance held at the Lambeth Baths. Evidence of'the~~Prince's remarkable memory for faces was given when he led Mrs McEnroy (president of the Women's Section of the Legion, and wife of Captain P. McEnroy) to the dance floor for a foxtrot. "I ♦'link we have met before," said the Prince. "Wasn't it at the Government ball 'at Madras in 1922?" Her husband was stationed in India then. The' Prince said that he was very much pleased to see what the women's section of the Legion was doing. ' A surprise invitation by the Prince to dance the Charleston with him fell to the lot of Miss Lylie Huckle, of Kennington, a pretty bruriette. "I was dancing with my fiance, when General Trotter, who was with the Prince, asked me to go on the platform to be presented to the Prince," she afterwards explained. "The Prince was very charming, and asked me todance. We started fox-trotting, but after a few moments the Prince led with the 'flat Charleston.' The Prince has completely mastered the Charleston, and is an ideal partner. I was a little nervous at first, but-the-Prince was so natural that ho soon put me at my case. That danco was encored three times, so that the Prince and I had four dances in.all." Although the Prince chatted most of the time, Miss Huckle remained silent on what he said. "I would rather not say what he talked about," she added, shyly. Miss Huckle, who is 20 and lives on the Prince's Duchy of Cornwall Estate, is a cashier in a well-known firm of ; caterers. She . made herself the black •'rnaroeaifl frock which she' was •: earing. The first news her family had of the honour she had received was- when a-newsboy called with a morning paper in which was her photograph. Her parents were asleep when tho happy girl got home. Another of the Prince's partners, Miss Charlotte A. Ashton, daughter of a Lambeth Councillor and a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, who danced with him in the "Paul Jones," declares that he JB a "a splendid dancer and keeps perfect time." A 10-year-old sixth form schoolgirl, Miss Ada Pool, of Bromley, was the Prince's partner in a waltz, but she was so excited that she had forgotten almost everything the Prince had said to her. .