PRINCE OF WALES’S SPEECHES
PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM A VERSATILE ORATOR London; October 3. The Prince of Wales is introduced to the literary world to-day in a volume “H.R.H.—His Speeches, 1923-26,” as one of Britain’s most versatile orators. The speeches reveal him as a master of tactful phraseology. He made Ins first public speech at the age of seventeen when invested as the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle. In was a verv brief speech: “I shall not forget to-day as long as I live, as. one which brought a new friend. It is true I am young, but I have great examples before me. I hope to do duty to my King, to Wales, and to all.” His. first great post-war speech was at the Guildhall when granted the Freedom of London. He said: ‘.‘The part I played was, I fear, most insignificant, but from one viewpoint I do' not regret my service overseas. In those four years I mixed with men and in those four years I found my manhood.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 11
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