PRINCE IN OVERALLS
STUDIES ENGINEERING [from a special correspondent] LONDON, March 23 While Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary for Air, was making a tour of the College of Aeronautical Engineering workshops, Chelsea, this week, a young man in overalls, his face grimed by toil, turned, smiled, shook hands and went on with his work. He was Prince Michael Romanoff, 18-year-old member of a Royal family. After this brief meeting Prince Michael said:—"l am here to learn aeronautical engineering, and I love the job. Since October I have been studying at this school and I have another two and a-lialf years to serve, with several months of practical work at Brooklands. -T "I specially like imr fellow-studcrits treating me not as Prince Micl«ael> as one of' themselves. I .ain; Romanoff' to them, and we play like that. I have never happy in my life. raA
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 13
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