OUR ROBUST KING

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1639, 9 May 1925, Page 3

OUR ROBUST KING

His Majesty the King has throughout his life been singularly free from even common ailments, writes a 'correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. Prince George, as no was known in his youth, enjoyed the most vigorous constitution of all the children of King Edward. He had few, if any, infantile complaints, and during his long service in the Navy, beginning as a cadet on board the Brittannia, was seldom on the sick list. It was not until he had reached his 26th year that he was overtaken by serious illness. In December of 1891 —and December has more than once proved an unlucky month for the House of Windsor Prince George was attacked by enteric fever. Queen Alexandra, and his sisters, who had been on a visit to the Tsar of Russia, were recalled in haste. Before his illness became critical, Prince George was removed to London. Thanks largely to skilled nursing, and a constitution hardened by many years at sea, our future King made a rapid recovery.

The day after Queen Victoria’s death there was a report from Osborne that Prince George was ill, and would not be able to attend the funeral of his grandmother. Fortunately it turned out to be nothing more serious than German measles. On one of the King’s visits to his armies in France, in the second year of the war , he met with a serious accident On October 28th, during a review, his horse, excited by the cheering of the troops, reared up and fell on him. His Majesty was severely bruised, but no bones were broken. From then until now, one cannot recall even a day when the King has been prevented by indisposition from following his usual pursuits.