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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 2

For more llian hah' a century all the clocks on the Royal Estate at "Samlringham have been kepi half an hour ahead o) Greenwich lime. The idea was introduced by the late King lid ward VU when lie was Prince of \Vales and was borrowed from a neighbour, the late Earl oi Leicester, to whom at Holkhain. in linearly days of their married life, the thei> Prince and Princess of Wales wen- frequent visitors. It was the earl's custom to keep all the clocks at Holkhain Hall half au hour fast to -secure punolualitv So punctual was King- Kclwnnl in "keeping ihs appointments "that he gained 'the reputation of "never beine I"1- '"