MANOEL'S APPRENTICESHIP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 30, 6 February 1911, Page 2

MANOEL'S APPRENTICESHIP.

THE MAKING OF A MONARCH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 23rd December. The days of sad dejection which followed the banishment of the Portuguese Royal Family are over. There is to be no more- moody brooding .over misfortune. ManoeJ is certain that the time will come when his country will require him at its head, and ho has made a kingly resolve to put his shoulder to the wheel, to learn all he can, to study other countries, and to pick up wisdom wherever he can find it; so that when the time comes he wDI be fit for the role. Ho is now planning out the future in the seclusion of the Bourbon "Coutt" at Wood Norton, and has definitely decided to_ employ his time in training himself in scholarship and diplomacy and all the arts of statecraft. In January King Manoel will leav» Wood Norton and settle in his own house at Richmond — a house which has just been vacated by Kaid Sir Plarry Ma-clean, and which was. built as a private residence fifty years ago by a Now Zealand merchant, Mr. Graham, of Grahamstovvn. From Richmond His Majesty will attend lectures at Oxford University and other centres of learning, expecting no special privileges. He will not attempt to obtain a degree, but since his tastes and inclinations are strongly literary and scientific in character his regular attendances at academic lectures may be counted upon. His Majesty will to a certain extent enter into the life of the University, and will not bo behindhand in taking the keenest interest in the sporting side. When he ceases to attend lectures at various universities, King Manoel will make a tour of the world and make a special study of British colonial methods. Ho will go to Australia, Africa, Canada, America, and the Far East. During this time he will travel as a private person, with the object of personally enquiring into the different systems of government obtaining among the overseas colonies of the various European Powers, and of seeing something of the marvellous regeneration of the Far East. His interest in the- United States will also be purely that of a student of affairs of government. It is not his desire to be feted or entertained ; he does not desire that any fuss should be made of him. He will travel from country to country in orciinary ooean liners and from place to place in ordinary trains. When his tour is over King Manoel will come back to England and there decide upon his future movements.