ROYAL PROTECTION
AS THE case of Prince Edward shows, the Feat difficulty for the Royal family today 1,s that it attracts just as much public Easeination as ever but is no longer well Protected by deference. In All Done from Memory, Osbert Lancaster describes his Cousin Jenny, a widow in the early years of the century, who spent every afternoon with the Morning Post 'and was completely important of what was for her the most section, the Court page'.
Was it not strange that the Queen of Spain had not come over to Kensington Palace, and did not that perhaps indicate that there would soon be another little grandchild for dear Princess Beatrice? How curious that °Ile heard so little of Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein these days! Perhaps it Was true that Queen Alexandra couldn't bear the sight of him and that was why he never went to Sandringham. Of course, one had
always heard that his father had drunk like a fish.
Today the public is just as interested in similar impertinent speculations. The dif- ference is that the newspapers air them without restraint and so the problems of members of the royal family, particularly young ones, are terribly magnified and thus become worse in the process.
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