Miles & miles from the night clubs of Mayfair, King George's youngest son last week rolled across the South African veldt in a special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the...
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