PRINCE ANGERED
Outrage at Runnymede London, July 12. “It’s a blackguardly thing. lam very sorry it has happened,” said the Prince of Wales, indignantly denouncing an outrage at Runnymede, where 4 the Great Charter of British liberty was wrung from an English monarch in 1215. The Prince had been told by Lord Zetland that the commemoration pillars of the caretakers’ cottages erected at Runnymede had been sprayed with creosote, apparently by objectors to the scheme by which the historic meadows where Magna Charta was signed have been presented to the nation by Lady Fairhaven in memory of her husband. Local opponents protested against the erection of the buildings as a desecration. The authorities fruitlessly tried to obliterate the stains, and when they failed they rushed evergreens to the spot to hide the blemishes in readl- ■ ness for the Prince’s unveiling of the pillars. The Prince spoke of Lady Fairhaven’s gift to preserve the countryside;
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 9
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154PRINCE ANGERED Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 9
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