AMIABILITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 971, 9 December 1879, Page 2

AMIABILITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

One principal reason. t why,tha^fiuke of Edinburgh is so rauclf leW &n6wn and so much less popular than his .eldest brother is because he is exbeedin^lj shy, and therefore very retiring. So shy, indeed, is he, thaVwlieii he has to make a speech m public it is a painTul effort to him ; whereas ihe Prince^.o|" Wales, without losing an inch of real dignity, is " hail fellow, well met I" with his intimate friends,- and, as a rule, sociable and pleasant, not to say often jolly, with other peoplip. _ .He has .also the' happy knack of turning aside or answering good humouredjy (his tact and happy temper are; proverbial) the most embarrassing and at times^ it nMult be confessed, impertinent remawsV Fanoy a man — to be sure, it is said he had not the slightest idea who it was he was addressing— asking the Prince 1$ he had over heard a- report that . the Queen was m the habit of drinking to eloessV and if he thought that it was true, , Yet; this is an actual fact : I mean that -tHe question was put \ not) of course, .that her Majesty imbibes, But it is a fact that a lady hailing from your side of the Atlantic did earnestly inquire op the Prince— well knowing^ tpo, whovlie was— if it was true that his motheiv %w about to marry Lord Beacon&neld] llt has been hinted that although^ the fflost dutiful of sons replied with. 1 due sojtem.nity, if not assumed horror at t|ie^b|*9 idea of such a contingency, he coufd not succeed m entirely suppressing; an amused smile.