KING GEORGE’S HEALTH

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 17

KING GEORGE’S HEALTH

VEILED SUGGESTIONS UNFOUNDED HIS MAJESTY A TIRELESS WORKER BUSY TIMES AHEAD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrigb' LONDON, March 12. (Received March 13, at 11 a.m.) Veiled suggestions regarding the King’s health have been circulated from irresponsible sources, perhaps with an insidious motive, hut they have now ceased. They would seem to have their baselessness completely confirmed by the strenuousness of His Majesty’s activities. It is generally recognised that these stories have no foundation in fact, but His Majesty lately utterly disproved them himself by undertaking a round of daily engagements which might have taxed even his predecessors. The apparent endlessness of King George’s daily official engagement list involves sometimes six or seven audiences, irrespective of informal daily conferences with officials, with the endless routine of signing papers. Apart from engagements like yesterday’s Buckingham Palace party to the Diplomatic Corps, he has now arranged a series of dinner parties at the Palace, two of which are on March 15 and 17, besides vigorous outdoor pursuits. The Australian Associated Press understands that the King, at recent shooting parties, walked miles, tiring out the other members of the party, in addition to which he has been playing vigorous tennis. His Coronation programme will necessitate almost daily and nightly functions and a certain amount of travelling, but there appears to be no diminution of his engagements before the Coronation weeks, which will occupy him practically to the end of July.