“THE PRINCE TO SEE YOU!”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 19, 13 April 1927, Page 5

“THE PRINCE TO SEE YOU!”

The Prince of Wales takes a very genuine interest in the poorer parts of London, and he frequently pays surprise visits to some of the slum districts. His visits throw the district into a state of intense excitement, and where he goes and what he says, and with whom he shakes hafids, become facts in history not easily forgotten by these less fortunate of London’s population, states a London correspondent. One evening the Prince paid a surprise visit to Wapping. He went to tenement houses and into the kitchens talking with families gathered there for tea. Mrs. Casey, of Prusom Street, Wapping, expressed the general opinion when she said, “He is a nice fellow, the Prince. You don’t feel out of place at all speaking to him.” It appears that Mrs. Casey was busy preparing supper, at about 10 o’clock, -when there came a knock at the door. Her daughter went out and found two strange men. One of them said, “Here is the Prince of Wales come to see you.” The daughter thought it must be a joke, and ran to her mother, who, in her own words, “was knocked completely flat.” She went to the door. “You don’t mean the real Prince” she said, “and the Prince took her by the hand and said, “Yes, the real Prince.” She led him into her front room, and there introduced him to her husband and her ten children. The Prince pleased her immensely by taking most notice of the baby boy. From Mrs. Casey’s he went on to Mrs. McCartney’s and Mrs. Fagan’s. Mrs. Fagan’s son is a champion boxer, and he and the Prince had a long conversation. When he went out to the street he was followed by a number of people singing “The More We are Together.” He went on to the East End Hospital for Mothers, and there took great notice of the babies. Each of the fourteen mothers who have a baby boy intends to call her baby by one or other of the Prince’s names.