DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 5

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

TO GIVE UP MILITARY CAREER. KING'S RIGHT-HAND MAN IN PUBLIC DUTIES. (By Air Mail.) (From a Special Correspondent.) London, January 23. The Duke of Gloucester has been out of the news for a considerable time. He will soon begin to take a more prominent share in public affairs, however. At the King’s request, he is .abandoning the military career on which he had set his heart. King George needs the assistance of his brother to shoulder his many duties- which formerly fell to him as Duke of York when King Edward was on the Throne. It had been planned that the Duke should take over the command of his regiment, the 10th Hussars, next year, and in readiness for a lifetime of professional soldiering, he had begun to study at the Staff College, Aldershot.. He was to have been promoted from Major to Lieutenantcolonel on taking over the regiment, and with his special training behind him it was expected that he would have become a General on the Staff in the course of his ordinary promotion. His advancement two weeks ago to the rank of Major-General was a courtesy promotion, not carrying with it any active participation in the duties of that rank. It means that he will leave t,he Army and abandon the career of his choice. Now that there are only three brothers they will have to share the many duties that fall to Royalty between them.