Title For Ogilvy ‘Lunacy'

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30103, 10 April 1963, Page 15

Title For Ogilvy ‘Lunacy '

(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright)

LONDON, April 9. The “Daily Mirror” today sharply criticised a reported suggestion that Mr Angus Igilvy, who is to marry Princess Alexandra on April 24, should be given a title.

“A’lready there is an idea afoot which would make an idiot out of her fiancee by turning him into Lord Something or Other. Lord help him and Lord help us,” the “Daily Mirror” said in an editorial. •The London ‘Evening Standard’ says that‘the Queen and Prince Philip are both anxious for him (Mr Ogilvy • to accept a title,” the “Daily Mirror” said. “Are they really as old hat as that? “So far Mr Ogilvy appears to the peasants of this coun-

try as a sensible chap with no lah-de-dah. And public opinion <we hope) still counts. “But the great new idea at Buckingham Palace seems to be that you marry a ’commoner' and then immediately make him look uncommonly daft by giving him an aristocratic handle to his monicker This isn’t democracy, it’s lunacy “When Antony ArmstrongJones married upstairs, the ‘Mirror’ urged that he should stay plain Mr Jones But this pleasant molehill was quickly made into a ridiculous mountain—Snowdon, about 3560 feet.

‘To call this photographer ‘Lord S.‘ was no service to him or to photography. The ‘Mirror 5 still calls him Mister Jones.

“What do the Palace panel want to call Mr Angus Ogilvy? Lord Ben Nevis? Count Killiecrankie? Baron Bog of Luchray? “Isn’t it good enough that his parents have already named him after the most

famous beef cattle in the world —the Anguses of Aberdeen?” the editorial concluded