The Archive · 1938

Informal Conversations

While King George ug at Sandringham Mr. Jones often looked up from his correspondence to see the King standing at the french windows of his study. The King used to sit an old-fashioned comfortable chair to the left of the fireplace, id the two men talked by the hour. calling each other by their Christian names, All the members of the Ro; Family had looked into the lens ai Mr. Jones s camera snapshot: ye used to show to privileged "friends One caught the Duke of Kent smiling on his baby in'his lap while the Duchess sat on the arm of the chair. The Duke had wheeled the baby prince over from Sandringham in his perambulator for Mr. Jones to see.

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