Informality Magdalen College style
For those who can't read the caption it tells us how the Prince of Wales, or 'Pragger-Wagger' is seen in the picture (click here for v.large version (3MB):
at the college in the atmosphere of complete informality which marked his entire period as an undergraduate
So a word of warning. If Chris Brooke invites you to a party and says it's 'nothing formal' dig out your walking stick and suit.
Ps This is from book I bought on Saturday called 'The Duke of Windsor: His Life and Times', written in the 1950s (and Copyright S.952.R, Odhams) but of the 1920s. After 109 pages of slobbering servility it gets to the Abdication, where it tells us that Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, could be 'depended to approach the problem sincerely'. Of the Duke's meeting with Hitler it merely records that 'the Duke had always been interested in the improvement of relations between Britain and Germany, and with the Duchess made a short visit to Germany in the October of 1937. On the left he is seen holding an animated conversation in Berlin with Dr Goebbels, then Propaganda Minister. The picture below shows the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Duchess'.
posted by Matthew @ 12/13/2004 09:51:00 AM
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