PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 1

PLOT TO KILL PRINCE.

Detective Tells Story of American Visit. LONDON, May 12. 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 the Prince’s, and it was reported that a desperado had secured admission and was determined to bomb the Prince’s quarters. Investigations partially confirmed the allegations, and the conference immediately told the man to “ get to Hell out of this.” Colonel Thwaites recalls that the ten-year-old Lady Anne Cavendish, youngest daughter of the Governor-General 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! ” 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.