SMOKING BY PRINCESS
Criticism By South African Churches
LONDON, May 21. Princess Margaret is criticised by “Die Kerbode,” the official newspaper of the Afrikaans churches in South Africa, for what is called “the dreadful faabit of smoking.” In an editorial headed "Poes it Become a Royal House?” the newspaper states: “We deplore this example set by a member of the British Royal Family. It seems fashionable to publish photographs of the Princess—preferably at a race meeting and always with a cigarette. “One can naturally understand the motive of the photographer. It is novel that a Royal lady from the English Royal House is a party, conspicuously and publicly, to the dreadful habit of smoking.” The newspaper represents members of the Dutch Reformed Church, or about 60 per cent, of South Africa's Afrikaans-speaking European population.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27047, 23 May 1953, Page 7
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