JOB IN COCOS ISLANDS
Nursemaid Sought
Mrs John Clun.ies-Ross, wife of King Ross V of the Cocos Islands, has advertised for a girl to help look after and give elementary education to her four children— Linda, Lissa, John and baby Andrew—aged four years to two months. Cocos, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, was inhabited in 1827 by Captain John CluniesRoss and leased for ever to the family by Queen Victoria. The present “King of the Cocos Islands” was educated at Exeter, Oxford, and the London School of Oriental Languages . He chose as his Queen in 1951 Daphne Parkinson, daughter of a Lancashire pill manufacturer.
They «were married in London and then settled in the Cocos, where three years later they welcomed the Queen and Prince Philip on their Commonwealth tour.
Today Mr and Mrs Clunies-Ross live in a 10-bedroomed "palace” built with bricks, stone and tiles shipped in from Scotland by Ross 111. They have about 500 subjects. Their island has no political parties, no trade unions, no police, no roads, no cars, no theatres, no taxes, no crime and almost no disease.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 2
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