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Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, who succeeds his father to the throne, will probably reign as Edward VIH. The choice of a. name has not yet been made but since the Prince ordinarily signs himself Edward P.. it seems most probable he will retain that name as King.

The Duke of York, His late Majestys second son. becomes heir-presumptive. He will be super- seded in the line oi’ succession by an issue oi the new King.

After the Duke of York the line of succession is as follows‘.

Princess Elizabeth of York.

Princess Margaret of York.

The Duke of Gloucester.

The Duke oi Kent.

Prince Edward oi Kent.

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. A Prince oi Wales (BY F. G. ALDHAM, Sill!’ Cu-repondcnt of The Canadian Press)

TORONTO. Ontario, Jan. 21- The eldest fsox. of King George V. was born at White Lodge, Rich- mond Park, on June 23, 1394. 1-19 automatcally became-Duke of Corn- wall under an ancient chatter. it was not until 1910 when hlsiather assumed the throne that he became Prince oi Wales. The ceremony conferring that honor on him was performed in 1911 in thc same year that he became a cadet of the Royal Navy at Dartmouth. In that your the King also invested his‘ son with the order oi the Garter.

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" Record As Ambassador Of Good- -_ ,Will Among World Nations.

ﬁllirit which endeared the Prince to miim- T0 this day every now and again some American newspaper will b98111 a Pafﬂzraph about the Prince of Wales with the words “Edward, Albert, Chatting, 5,0,“: _, and will ieler to the dozen or more peerages which this one’ young man has ac- cumulated. In the last few years

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during which the prince has tra- velled less on duty and, more for h“ 0W" Pieﬂ-‘illre. the American newspapers have followed his pm- gross with keen interest. l-lc will be the first British king Americans ‘"11 i991 they know personally.

Visits to Canada

The Prince was educated at Osborne, Dartmouth and Oxford. He matriculated in i912, two years after he had been created Prince oi Wales. While he was at Oxford he qualified in the Royal. Navy as a midshlpman. In i919 he was pro- moted Captain. R.N. Meantime he had qualified for, and received a commission in. the Army. when the lwar broke out he was a Second

Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was made a Lieutenant in November i914, a Captain in i916. got his temporary majority in 1918. and was gazetted Colonel in 1919. His military rank during his Empire trip was Colonel oi the Welsh Guards. In Canada he is Colonel-in-Chief of the Toronto Regiment. and the Canadian Gren- dier Guards, Montreal, Que. and Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Prince oi Wales Canadian Dragoons, Beterboro, Ont. In addition he has many honorary brevets in British regiments and is an officer ti the Royal Air Force. a

War Service

During the war he served on the French and Italian fronts. He has received civil and military decora- tions, besides his numerous British ones, from India. Spain, France, Italy. Denmark, Norway. Russiaffhe Vati- can, Roumania. and Egypt. and has been invested with degrees by the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, st. And*ew's and Lon- don; in Canada by Toronto, Alberta and Queen's; and elsewhere in the Empire. bv Melbourne, Cape Town, Calcutta, Benares, I-Iong Kong and Witwatersand. '

The Prince has visited practically every part of the civilized world. Between i919 and 1926. when he was making his official tours, he was more talked about and written about than any other human being. In the United States his popularity was very great although its citizens never ceased to be amazed at the verv simDliCltv of and democratic

Canadians who are familiar with the slender, high-strung young llflucc. may be interested to know that physically he closely resembles his ginindfaihcr. the late King Ed- ward. His physician once remarked to Canadian friends that King Ed. Ward when he was 30 was just a slight and sensitive man. When the Prince of Wales officially visited President Wilson in 1919 the Presi- dent was unable to rise from hi5 bed. In his bedroom was a picture °i K111i! Edward as a young mim nnd Wilson pointed out to the prince his strong resemblance to his grandfather.

Queen Mary (formerly Princess May of Tack) has lived to be spoken oi as the world's best mother. 0i her six children she is said to have loved the eldest most. Court gossip says that she always called him David though that name was the last oi the seven names conferred upon him atbaptism. In his wander- ings about Canada the prince often referred to his mother in informal talk and even his British schoolboy reserve did not quite cloak the tre- mendous affection in which he holds her.

It is told of him that while serv- ing on the staff’ of the Canadian COTPS as 6.5.0. N0. 2 during the stirring weeks that closed the war, he asked the Corps photographer for two prints of a picture oi 111m- self, among the first to enter the captured city of Valenclenncs. "I want one for the Family," he said, adding with a blush, “and one for the Girl." The photographer was not the more embarrassed oi the tWO. an anecdote characteristic of the channing and simple sincerity that won all hearts.

Britons who accompanied the prince to Canada in 1919 said the Queen had used hcr influence to train the prince for tho yOlC of “Am- bassador of Empire" which m 1111911 so well. Onc story had it that .she looked to him to keep the British

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It is seventeen and s half years since the prince made his first public speech. This was on the oc- casion of his investitura as Prince of Wales at Camsvon, July i8, 1911- meech of I00 words oi which 11 were in the Welsh language. Iii-ended with . s Welsh quotation which translated is "Without God._without anything:

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Since than the more speeches than probably any human being could estimate. Most- of them have been made since be began his Canadian tour of 1919. Between the time that he spoke at Camavon on the attainment of his official majority and his first in Canada, he spoke only once-at Bt. Anselnrs Church in South lbondon, June 18, i914. As Duke oi Cornwall he spoke oi housing conditions in the old Duchy ‘of Cornwall estate in South Tian- ‘don. Time after time in Canada he

urged Canadians to take warning

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began his Empire tours she toid him the continuance of the Biliisil connection with the Domillions might rest in his hands. ‘

Preached Empire's irresponsibility

All through. his speeches during the next few years in all the British Dominions, most of the Colonies and man oi the Dependencies; in the united States. the Argentine. in Japan. Chile and Uruguay. he preached the doctrine of the British Empre as a force for the world's good. In Burke's peerage it is stated that he resides at St James's Palace, London. and at the E. P. Ranch. near Calgary. Alta. lie once remarked he would like to spend his days commuting beween the two places.

when the n-ince oi Wales first came to Canada in 1919 he was a self-conscious boy of 25 with a deli- cate task ahead of him. Officially he was one more Prince oi Wales making the tour of Canada which had become a tradition with the heir apparent. I-Iis father and his grandfather had made the tour be- icrs him. Great Britain was facing the postwar struggle against debt and trade depression. The Imperial Conference of 1921 had not yet clarified Empire affairs. Much was heard of the anxiety which the British Government was said to feel about the attitude of the Dominoins to the British throne and the British connection. It sounds like nonsense now but it was quite seri- ously dicussed then. Never had the British people at home felt so much in need oi Empire.

Success of l9l9 Tour Some claim that the British Gov- Emprs in the Prince oi Wales. But

1919 was ever expected to do more than corny out the tradition dignity and tact which hh progeni- tors had set years before. His great success in Canada was certainly not icrseen by the newspapers.

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It official visits and the prince has become a familiar figure in Canada. He has acquired a farm and learned to pick out the likeilest stock for it. i-fe has danced with Canadian nurses and played poker with Can- adian soldiers. most oi whom he

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correspondents were given cnrtc public throughout the world read twice a day of the tﬁumphal progress “(If

e senior Dominion and the pessimists began to doubt the wisdom oi the a. short time before. had prophesied that Kink George V. would be the last

‘The i919 tour is an old story now. has been succeeded by two senil-

even a brief visit. Hr: can convince technicians that he is enormously interested in their pet hobby and he has along, 3 memory for faces. He gives t e impression of wanting to know all about you. and having learned, to remember. Hun- dreds of Canadians who took him at his word and visited Bt. JBIXIBS'S Palace while they were in London tell of his keen memory for inci- dent and habit ci mind.

when the prince began his 1919 tour, a strike was in progress in the gold and silver mining district of Northern Cintario. Oliiicialdom decided that it would be safer to cancel the projected visit to that district. The Royal party went fishing instead in the period which would have been occupied. Later the prince found this out, insisted 0n going to Northern Ontario on the way back east and cancelled one of the hunting trips he is so fond 0f. to make time for the trip through the Porcupine mining country. The result was that the citizenry in that part oilthe world gave the prince a welcome which must have setteld the fears of the most anxious official. At Timmins a streamer bearing the legend: “This is your town; paint it red or my dam color you like.”

New York was mother place where officials hesitated totake the prince. At the time the city was iuil of anti-English feeling en- genered by the Irish question. It was partly because of the prince's insists-tire on it that he was fin- ally allowed to go. One incident. charactristic of the man but amaz- lng to the United States ' mind. helped to bring the New Yorkers round to a. belief that a prince could h: also a simple gentleman. Al, u. gala performance in the Metropolitan a huge, ornate chair had been set alone in the iront of the Royal box and all other chairs in the box were ranged behind it. When the prince came in with . General Pershing the ovation from the fashianable throng lasted min- utes. At the end of it the prime

Rep- - , resentatives of British papers who accompanied the Royal party had

the country was new to see that overcrowding in cities was made impossible. His first big speech was on the occasion oi his acceptance of the freedom of the City of Iondon in the Guildhall, May 29,1919. He spoke or the war and oi the Don- don regiments. and added: “The part 1 played was. I fear, a. very iri- signliicant one, but from one point of view I shall never regret my periods of service overseas. in those four years I mixed with man. In those four years I found my manhood. When I think of the future and the heavy responsibili- ties which may fail to my lot I feel that the experience gained since 1914 will stand me in good stead."

It was in Canada that the prince got his real training in speech making. Before the end oi the tour he was wont to make a brief, impromptu speech here and there while the officials oi his suite tried to hide their nervousness. But the prince showed that he was quits capable of grasping the re- quirements oi any particular oc- casional He speaks easily and well in French as well as in lmgllsh-

In- Calgary he spoke oi his desire to explore the northwestern region -thc northwest territories and the Peace River country. When he said that he hoped to visit Canada soon again, the likelihood oi another visit did not seem great- But short- ly afterwards he purchasedaranch nearflaigary and became a tax- payer ln Alberta.

Tributes To Canada

Of the union oi Hench and Brit- ish people in Canada the prince said ai- Mbntreal in 1919- "The union of the two races in Canada was never a matter oi mere politi-. cal convenience. On he contrary it was, and will always remain, an example oi the highut political wisdom, for which the Empire owes ‘an inestimable debt to Cartier, Macdonald and the other statesmen of both races who brought it about " '

At Toronto in 1919 the prince, acknowledging the welcomes given, to him, said: “I realize that they

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"I ask myself, what does that mean? It means I think that the throne stands for a. heritage of common aims and ideals shared 911118111’ by all sections, all parties, and all nations within the British Commonwealth. No government re- presents or stands for all parties or all nations within the Empire. But despite this there is a common sentiment which is shared not only by all nations within the Empire, but also by all political parties within each nation. It was this common sentiment which made u; stand together in the Great War."

“A Canadian"

A few days later in Washington, D. C.. the prince told a public gathering that he came not only as a representative of the British Em- pire but also as a Canadian. He spoke o! the unguarded boundary line and added: “North of that frontier we cherish our British in- stitutions, our British form oi‘ freedom, our British allegiance to the King South of it you cherish equally the institutions into which the American citizen is born. The

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‘Ilhe Prince of Wales 1919 official tour followed by three SUbSQQuQm trips to Canada. He was here in i923 to visit his ranch in Alberta. In the summer oi 1924 he made another unofficial incognito m, trip was anything but private

The Prince was in Canada again in 1927. That year he accompanied 5159-11161‘ Baldwin, then as now Prime Minister oi the United xiii;- dom, on part of the latters tom- of the dominion.

Simplicity MarkedLife

(A. P, By Guardian’: Special Wire)

SANDRINGIIAM, Jan. 30-1114: homely touch in the relations of King George V. and his people was illustrated tonight before his death by the Dean of Manchester's description oi’ a Christmas Day service at which he officiated in the Royal Church here.

The Dean, Dr. Garfield Williams, said at his Manchester home;

"It is rather difficult for tiu King to sing. But I shall never forget him singing there with the two little children (the Princessel Elizabeth and Margaret Rose) on either side oi him.

“He sang with all his family around him until he coughed so much he could not sing any more.‘ ._':i