Gossip About the Royal Children.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XXIII, 4 June 1904, Page 61

Gossip About the Royal Children.

I’he children of the Prince and Princess of Wales form the subject of the first paper in the “Women at Home.” Il appears that though officially known as Prince Kdward. the eldest box is usually

railed Ihi vid. One of the reasons foi this selection out of his seven Christiun names suggests that the Anglo Israel movement has lofty patrons: A member »f the Royal family, after a long study <»f those passages in Scrip lure rri.iling to the subject, had for mui.i led a theory by which she had i raced thr Royal infant's direct line of <l ‘-*rnt :n. King David. Many of our • ngli-h Royalties, of whom Queen Vittoria 'a as t'nr chief, upheld her in the belief. During the Boer war the little man. hearing inat another European Power had shrxt o itself unfriendly towards us. was heard to mutter: “Just let them waii. When I’m King I'll chop their hi ads off!" The Princess Mary, now -even \tars old. is said to rule her brothel-. with a rod of iron; which they mil. I not at all. ami are ever ready to give way to her. She consoled her mother on the latter leaving England lor ihe colonies. “Don't you bother. 1 shall take care of us." Her mother, when a merry schoolgirl at a garden party, ran away from the “grown ups" Io have a romp with her brothers, and liiiding a garden hose, danced with delight as she turned it upon them and thoroughly douched them before they knew what she was about.