PRINCE AND CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1935, Page 17

PRINCE AND CHILDREN

When the Prince of Wales' visited Berkhamsted recently he visited the boys' school and the" girls' school, which share a foundation for which they have to thank Henry VIII. At the boys' school he tried his hand at printing. Having examined the type, the Prince placed a sheet of paper in position and Worked the machine. He then1 handed the sheet to the boy who was acting as "head printer." "Will that do?" he asked. The boy noticed that it was incorrectly centred. "Well, sir,"- he said, "it's not very good." "Very well," replied the Prince, "I will do another." The second effort having been duly ''approved," the Prince signed it. In the "metal shop he, was presented with a tankard in silvered copper, the work of a :boy. Going round the school with the headmaster, Mr. C. M. Cox, he showed that it was in science, and especially, in biology, that he was most interested. ■ He had previously visited the girls' school, and Miss C. F. Mackenzie, the headmistress, brought him to a room hi:the junior branch. Later, when he addressed the girls assembled in the hall, the Prince said: "It is a long time since I was at school, and methods have Improved so much that I do not think you have any excuse for not learning a great deal more than I did."