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£4 THE oa iv. Fines Che ire. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948 ) (3 ) i Can Call Eight Residences Home London--Princess Elizabeth's son + . can call two palaces, three castles, £ / and three mansions his home. He will spend some time in each 3 every year. : The two palaces -- Buckingham . " Palace in London, and Holyrood in Edinburgh -- are the national state residences of his grandfather, King George VI. Windsor Castle is another nation- al state residence, while Balmoral ecu. on ee oilana, is the g's private pro, y. he third castle, Glamis, is the #ghland seat of the family of his grandmother, the Queen. One mansion -- Sandringham in Norfolk -- like Balmoral, is the sec- ond of the King's private homes. The other two mansions are the homes of the child's parents. The first is Clarence House, St. James', their official London resi- dence; which will be ready come plete with a nursery floor shortly. T. 9-Hole Golf Course "Fhe other is Windlesham Moor, their leased week-end home, with a 50-acre estate in Surrey, 25 miles from London. All but the latter home, whose main attraction is a nine-hole golf course, has a story. From childhood, the young Prince will hear the legends surrounding Holyrood House, where Mary, Queen of Scots, lived for the greater part of 'her reign. He will play hide-and-seek in Glamis Castle, like his grandmother and mother before him, During his boyhood, he will be able to roam among the royal estates' nearly 100,000 acres of the finest deer forests and timber land, In his homes, he will become familiar with priceless art treas- ures collected by British royalty through many generations. His birthplace, Buckingham Pa- lace, has been the focal point of the nation in times of rejoicing for mbre than a century. ¥ "Ugliest Palace" Described as the ugliest palace in Europe, it has never been' very popular with the Royal Family. Queen Victoria stayed there when she had to. George V did not like it--and rumor once had it that he was ready to sell it for $12,000,000. Connoisseurs and experts say that the period furniture and treasures in the state apartments are worth $15,000,000. Second home to which the new Prince will be introduced is the 11,000 - acre Sandringham Estate, where he will spend traditional Christmases with the rest of the Royal Family. Here, the villagers regard the King, who was born on the estate, as a country squire rather than a monarch. The Prince will take an interest in the herd of Red Polled cattle, and in the breeding of Labrador retrievers. He will see the first salmon which the King caught in the Dee, and the skin of a lion, shot by the Queen, in the private royal sporting museum on the grounds. Easter at Windsor His first Easter will probably be spent at Windsor Castle, where the Court also goes in residence for the Ascot Races in the sum- mer. There he will play in the famous corridor used by Princes and Princesses for a hundred years, Zoffanys, Gainsboroughs, and Hoppners line the walls, and it is a favorite haunt of his thother, who has been known to do cartwheels down it. In the Queen's audience chame ber he will see the ceiling painted by Verrio, and throughout the castle, 40,000 drawings by the great masters, including Reynolds and Van Dyck, Gobelin tapestries, orien- tal carpets, Sevres china, and enough gold plate to serve 100 guests in 16 large state rooms. Sometime during next summer and fall he will visit his three homes in Scotland. Balmoral Castle is magnificently situated in the midst of the fa- mous Deeside scenery, and seen from a distance looks like a marble palace. The stonework is of white granite from local quarries. "Thousand Draughts" «Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's cbnsort, bought it for $126,000. King Edward VII called it "the house with a thousand draughts." Glamis Castle, seat of the Earls of Strathmore, is one of the oldest castles in Scotland. With its bat- , corbels, it feudal grandeur, ~King Malcolm II was slain there in 1083, and as Macbeth was Thane of -Glamis, popular imagination has quite erroneously connected Shake- speare's Macbeth With this castle. .The child will probably spend one week a year at Holyrood, once tHe scene of gay pageantry in the days 'of Scotland's doughty mon- archs, ue Mower a the centre of many of e darkest tragedies in Scottish history. Vor At Classticy House - years, it been a gloomy, windswept palace until the present King decided to hold levies there «Mary, Queen of Scots, was mar- BE) vise there --~ fh, to Lord and afterwards to Both- well. Her apartments are still in- ut the young prince will spend most of his time in his parents' Ermer: ONTARIO MOTOR SALES LTD. | DONALD MOTOR SALES which was built in 1825 for the : Duke of Clarence, afterward King ; : > ae we 86 KING ST.E. -- OSHAWA WHITBY, ONT. Duke of Edinburgh -- Queen Vic- toria's second son, who brought a Czar's daughter from Russia th : € € bis bride. The four-storied house iY) LS MO § OR SALES was for 41 years the home of the late Duke of Connaught. During the Ro ny fe Sito of ta ; 265 KING ST. W. - OSHAWA Macclesfield, England--(COP)--st. Paul's Church began & service in darkness except for a central light representing Christ as the Light of the World. It ended with the sanc- 3 filled with costumed parish- i, 3, e. CHEVROLET - PONTIAC - OLDSMOBILE R light through the ages. a pr WERE BE GRE iA ~