FRINGE OF SCOTLAND

Evening Star, Issue 18640, 22 May 1924, Page 10

FRINGE OF SCOTLAND

EXPLANATION OF MISUNDERSTANDING. Dr Waif,nr Seton, of Abcroorn, delivered the first of a course of five public lectures at University College, London, on- 'The Relations between Scotland and England in (bo Sixteenth Century,’ The lectures are pi von in connection with the lectureship in Scottish history inaugurated at the public lecture on February' 2d in the presence, of the Queen. At the conclusion of the lecture, Dr Set-on slated in an interview that his suggestion made at the previous lecture that, the Prince of Wales, when he visited Scotland, should make use of the title, “ Prince of Scotland and Wales,” bad met with a very mixed reception, and had raised a good deal of controversy. He had received a mass of correspondences from Wales condemning his suggestion, and had also been very •severely criticised in the Welsh Press. The whole position had arisen through a misunderstanding, he said, because he had not a-sknd, as the Welsh critics appeared to think, that the Prince should be created “ Prince of Scotland,'’ ns his father was before him, and the suggestion was merely that when in Scotland the title should be used just as the Prince became Duke of Cornwall on bis visits to the duchy. Even in Scotland, said Dr Se.ton, there had been a certain amount of disapproval through “the same misunderstanding, but he was glad to say that, following a further explanation by him in the Scottish Press, the idea was now receiving support in Scotland, and he felt sure that support would grow stronger. For the present, the whole matter was in abeyance, pending the decision by the King and the Prince of Wales, by whom it must he settled. Dr Seton said he had not been taken by surprise by the controversy. Ho has warded his original suggestion a.s carefully as possible, in order to avoid giving offence to any section of the population of tho .British Isles,