PRINCE’S MAIL-BAG

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1931, Page 9

PRINCE’S MAIL-BAG

GREAT VARIETY OF LETTERS. Most distinguished people have extraordinary postbags, but I do not suppose anybody in the world re. ceives such a large and such, a strangely assorted mail as the Prince of Wales (says a writer in the “Sunday Chronicle”). I am told that there is a person living ih Glasgow who has written to his Royal Highness every day for the last ten years. The letters are anonymous, but judging by the writing the eccefltric correspondent is ah. elderly woman. The postmark is always Glasgow, except in the month of August, when it changes' to Ilkley, ih Englahd. Unlike most elderly women, the Glasgow correspondent is commendably brief. She always begins “My dear pMnce,” and then follows a text from the Bible, almost always from this Bobk of Revelations. Thht is all. The other regular cbrresppndefit to thb Prince is even . queerer. Every month the Prince receives an enve-

lope with the Hamburg postmark containing a 100-mark note. There is no covering letter, but the envelope is addressed in an unmistakably Teutonic hand. This money has been received ever since the armistice. Naturally thQ Prince does not wish to accept the equivalent of £5 every month from an anonymous stranger. As the best way out, it is paid into the fund from which his Royal Highness dispenses charity.