London, Apr. 16.
you remember the. picture. "Punch" of a. bird. setting on the bearskin of a grenadier on. parao, Jand. the next man whispering Roarsely, "Pretend it isnt there? And pot, the thine nar realy hap. pened. 'The' band was playing" ai Windsor Castle when a pigeon down and perched upon one of the men's bearskins. Shooed off" from there, It merely moved to" another, fand then "another, and £0 on. took two sergeants several "minutes drive it away." The explanation tat the bird liked musie does not seem to have occurred {0 anyone. once knew a eat which always sotied Under the plane when his master was playing. Ita cag enjoys mosle: why a pigeon? The RSPCA. should Tookinto the callous conduct of the we sergeants.
Unloved Windsor Castle But the pigeon was at least one bright spot for the King and Queen In their first residence a, Windsor, They do not like the place and for their "country week-end always choose Royal Lodge In Windsor Park, where they are building a swimming! bath for the Princesses. Edward VIII bhated the Castle and if I remember rightly only went inside it once while he was King. His father and Queen Mary liked it; Edward VI, whose sense of royal dignity was always great, held court there at, regular intervals. Queen Victoria almost made it her London home. It lovely to look at, but possibly tess: lovely to live in. One of the royal;|chaplains told me that when he is summoned to Windsor a footman is told off to guide him about or he would infallibly lose his way, King Arthur of the Round Table was traditionally: the founder of Winds "The wings of the dead centuries must rather flap about one in the Castle, and T believe the fires smoke. Lits unpopularity with Royalty: Is, perhaps, a measure of the democratiz~ Ing of the Sovereign, who seems more comfortable when' dropping into Shoreditch workmen's flats, to discuss the making of beefsteak pies.
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