Training | 2010.01.24
From the archive: Prince's training for his great responsibilities
Originally published on 21 January 1936
The people will be conscious that they have a new ruler, King Edward VIII. But for long they may find it difficult to forget the Prince of Wales. The one has become the other, but the memory of the Prince when he was a Prince will not pass quickly away. His was a singularly attractive personality even to those immense numbers of people who would never know him except as they read about him, saw photographs, or caught a glimpse in some state procession or visit.
Without the slightest grasping after popularity he has always been popular. The heir to the throne has been admired and liked not only because he was Prince of Wales, but because he has so constantly been, in the eyes of the people, a high-spirited young man whose great responsibility has never managed to hide the expression of a lively and individual personality.
The Prince\'s education was not the normal English sequence of preparatory school, public school, and university. It was more carefully thought out, combining some of the advantages of private education with residence at school and college.
The Prince had a year at Magdalen College, Oxford, which, in its freedom and in its nearness to the ordinary life of the ordinary undergraduate, must have been the greatest pleasure to him. One thinks of the Prince riding to hounds, drilling with the O.T.C. [Officer Training Corps], reading for his tutors, but not reading all the time, and taking part in the normal life of the college. Truly new times, and new ways of educating the heir to the throne among his fellow-men.
The Prince has always been a man of action. The year at Oxford was immediately followed by the war, and he was posted to the Grenadier Guards. When his battalion went to France he was not allowed to go until the line of trenches was settled, and the story of his appeal to Lord Kitchener is well known. When the line was established he was allowed to go, and everyone knows that the difficulty with the Prince was to keep him from going into danger.
What has made the greatest impression in these last few years has been his preoccupation with the state of those who are most unfortunate in this country. Now that he is King we shall not need to say of him, as was said of that earlier English Prince, Hal, how much he changed when he became a king. The Prince of Wales has the gay spirits and the love of life that make a man liked everywhere; but he has long displayed the sense of duty, the willingness to work, and the awareness of grave responsibility which must be ever present in a king.
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