Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1951 — Page 12

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By MARION CRAWFORD Governess of the Little Princesses

CHAPTER THREE AFTER THE SHOCK of

King George's death, wid--owhood brought to Queen

Mary no respite from the

cares of State, or time to adjust herself to a new way of living. : Instead it brought problems as great as any queen in history ever had to face. x

Instead of being given leisure to plan in tranquility her future round of activities, she found herself suddenly confronted by a crisis that was to test and prove the strength of the-ties between her own family and the British people. Some people had felt, even while the old King was alive, that. the Prince of Wales was not taking the path that some of his advisors would have chosen and that his birth and upbringing had marked out for him. Although British newspapers had loyally refrained from coupling the names of the Prince and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the foreign press, particularly in America, was busy with speculation, hints and wild surmise. There was no censorship of British newspapers, but only voluntary agreement among them to print nothing until it was known to be true.

” ” ” ROYALTY was not fair game for gossip, -because Royalty

could not answer back. I like to think now that King George V was mercifully spared any knowledge of these rumors.

For we knew, how sternly he always had deprecated even the harmless democratic lapges from strict formality that 8 Prince had permitted, encouraged, and enjoyed on his visits to Canada and the United States. The coming crisis was a far. more serious affair. Whether or not King George V_had heard of_th aware of them. All of us knew something of what was going on. Queen Mary, with her quick perception, her womanty intuition, and her love for ‘all her family, must have been one of the first to sense it. The Prince of Wales was close to his mother and always ready to confide in her. ; It has often been said that the Prince of Wales was her favorite son, and that she had placed all her hopes in him. My own view is that it was Queen Mary's high sense of duty, as Queen and Queen Mother, which transcended her personal feelings, her family attachments, and upheld her through the months of crisis. The Prince of Wales was always a favorite of Princess

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_pacE “. ; : Tw iil Mother and Queen— we > Grief Brings No Relief

from Responsibility

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IN 1908—King George V and Queen Mary at Cowes with the

Prince of Wales.

Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. The Prince Charming whom the multitudes acclaimed was always the beloved Uncle David to his nieces. : When his name first became

_...v: had hea oe rumors... linked with..that of Mrse Simp1 feel sure Queen ary was

son, I tried to explain the ecircumstances to them in words | that they would understand.

It Has Been Colder Elsewhere |

| By Sclence Service |

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22—80,

you think it’s cold here these days? | Well, on Feb. 9, 1933, at River-| side Ranger Station, Colo, the| temperature hit minus 66 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest it has ever] peen in the continental United States. The thermometer has hit minus, 60 or below only 10 times since such records have been kept. Latest drop to minus 60 occurred last winter, Feb. 1, 1951, at)

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Perhaps the explanation helped to prepare them for the sudden change in their own lives. . The greatest share of understanding had to come from Queen Marys She, so recently

NOTE: This is the third of a series of six installments from the book, MOTHER AND QUEEN, just published, Mrs. Crawford, the author, passed 17 years in the roydl house as a tutor and governess.

- Lodge, Windsor, where she came

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to whom all her family had®o turn for guidance and support. » » n

I. HAD MET Mrs. Simpson first as a visitor to the Roydl

to tea with the new King and two or three of “his friends. I am bound to-say that I found her smart, attractive, friendly and even fascinating. She was also perfectly poised. |

I remember her drawing King | Edward to a window and sug- 1 gesting how the view could he improved by moving some trees | and taking away part of the

hill. Though the Duke and Duchess of York behaved with quiet | and charming dignity, there was an awkwardness in the atmosphere. I was glad when the | Duchess asked me to take the |

children for a walk in the | woods. “Crawfie,” asked Lilibet as

soon as we were away from the house, “Who is she?” Somehow I managed to evade the question. It was not until the crisis | was all over that I could ex- | plain to Lilibet that Uncle David had fallen in love with someone Britain could not accept as Queen, because she had been married before, and her husband was still living. Meanwhile both children | seemed to sense that something was amiss. Conversations would be broken off as we entered a room. Once the children were asked to go over to Ft. Belvedere, the new King’s country house, not far from the Royal Lodge, for tea. It was difficult to explain to

them why they could not go. (Copyright, 1951, Prentice-Hall. Inc.) Next Sunday: King Edward’s

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BOUNCED «— Bob Starr is saying goodbye fo Memphis State College—by mutual consent. The school learned he was enrolled in Southwestern, was sports editor of both college

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for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and working on a novel. He has a wife and two children.

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