PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 4

PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

DETECTIVE’S REMINISCENCES. The story of a plot to assassinate the Prince of Wales while in New York in 1919 is told by Colonel Norman Thwaites, one ,of the Prince’s bodyguard; during his Canadian-American trip, in a book of reminiscences. It was discovered, he says, that the rooms allotted to the Irish Conference at the Waldorf Hotel were situated beneath tho Prince’s, and it was reported that a desperado had secured admission and ivas determined to bomb the Prince’s quarters. Investigations partially confirmed the allegations, and the conference immediately told the man to “get to out of this.”

Colonel Thwaites recalls that the 10-year-old Lady Anne Cavendish? youngest daughter of the GovernorGeneral of Canada from 1916 to 1921, while the company was dancing at Government House, Ottawa, partnered a be-medalled and uniformed general. The Prince, clad in mufti, on asking her to dance, received the tart reply : “Can’t, you see I am dancing with a soldier 1”

The Prince’s naturalness was illustrated at an informal dance at Washington, where a girl with no pretensions to inclusion in the smart set replied to the Prince’s request for a dance: “I do not know how to behave with Royalty, so don’t think me rude if I am just myself.” Within five minutes they were talking like friends from the cradle. The Prince later paid her and her mother the only visit outside his schedule.