THE PRINCE AS HORSEMAN

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 14

THE PRINCE AS HORSEMAN

“AN EXCELLENT RIDER.” I met to-day in his quiet apartments in St. James’s Palace o very charming personality (writes the London corres-■ pondent of the “Glasgow Herald”). Sir Godfrey Thomas is more than the private secretary to the Prince of Wales: he is his warm friend and kindly adviser, who is performing the thousand and one difficult duties of the Royal household with a more intimate knowledge of the Prince’s wishes than any other man. “The Prince,” said Sir Godfrey, “is really a far busier man than many seem to realise, and even although I am doing my best to tackle the routine work there are constant arrears piling up to which he will have to see when he returns at the end of his African trip. I myself have been away from the country for a while, and I took a look at his ranch in Canada,-which I found in excellent order, and which I hope he will be able to visit before very long. “I was asked several times what I thought of the Prince’s horsemanship, which seems to be an. activity of His Royal Highness which particularly appeals to folk in tlft Dominions. The more’s the pity, therefore, that so much publicity should always be given here to any spills which the Prince may have. He is really an excellent horseman, and has fewer spills than many another rider. To make a fuss over every mishap is, to say the least of it, ‘unsporting.’ ”