Princess Anne's departure
Sir, — John Baineaves (July 19) appears to lack understanding. There could be several reasons for an incident that really needed no comment. Has he ever had to go on stage before large audiences, make speeches to. gatherings where ages and interests were all mixed, move and speak knowing that photographers, reporters, TV cameras, were all focused on him all the time? Nevil Shute once, queried the need for carrying a steward in an aircraft to be built for the King's Flight: ‘T received a brief account of the fatigue that Royal personages must endure ... . . radiant people who had opened a Town Hal! . . . shaken a thousand hands, smiling and waving to the crowd . . . collapsing in a coma of fatigue directly the door was shut, grey-faced, and utterly exhausted.” Berta Ruck described the great ballerina, Pavlova, as she came off stage after that brief but demanding “The Dying Swan,” in similar terms. — Yours, etc., SADIE G. BALKIND. July 19, 1979.
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