GLAMIS CASTLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 9

GLAMIS CASTLE

GATHERING OF ROYALTY. THE KING’S FIRST VISIT. : (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON; August 11. (Received August 11, at 8 p.m.) The Nows Chronicle correspondent states that the King and Queen intend to visit Glamis Castle towards the end of the month to see the Duchess of York. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester are also expected. Their Majesties will go to Balmoral on August 28, and -will probably motor across the 50 miles of beautiful Highland country to Glamis Castle. This will be the King’s first visit and the first occasion on which a monarch has stayed at Glamis since the castle ceased to be a royal bunting box of mediaeval days. It was announced by cable some days ago that Mr J. R. Olynes, the Home Secretary, had gone to Glamis Castle “in anticipation of the fulfilment of hih duties as Home Secretary in connection with an interesting event expected there very shortly.” It is the usual procedure, at an accouchement in the Royal Family ,that may affect the succession to the Throne, to have a Minister of the Crown present, as an established official precaution against impositions upon the nation such as are alleged to have taken in history. What took place a the birth of King Edward VII is thus described in Mr Michael MacDonough’s book, “ The English King,” published a few mouths ago; “The happy event took place at Buckingham Palace. In accordance with ancient custom, the Government was represented at the birth of an heir to the Throne. This is traditionally intended to prevent the danger, which appears to have been- very real in mediieval times, of a suppositious child. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Lyndhurst, the Lord Chancellor, were waiting in a room adjoining the Queen’s bedchamber, and when the nurse, very soon, brought in the Infant they signed the declaration that a 'male heir to the Throne was born.” I In the event of the birth of a- son to the Duchess he will, of course, rank third in the order of succession, coming next after tha, Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and thus displacing Princess Elizabeth of York, who now holds the third place in the royal line.