23 MARCH 1929, Page 3

It has been officially announced that Prince George is giving

up active work in the Navy, in order to be attached temporarily to the Foreign Office. At a Civil Service dinner on Monday Prince George said, " I am the first member of my family to be attached to the Civil Service." The precedent is only another of those wise departures which are continually proving the adaptability to modern needs of the King and the whole Royal Family. It used to be thought natural for Royal Princes to serve only in the fighting Services ; nowadays that limitation seems much less natural—indeed un- natural. * * * *