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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Royal visits
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:27:58 +0200
References: <A4C639AED869AF4B828526B39AA54EB7074CDF@exchange1.williamsbailey.com>


Hi Rick

Here are a few links to confirm the date of '1925' pertaining to your query.
Hope it helps some.

Regards
Becky

1925
Visit of Prince of Wales to South Africa; laid foundation stone of new
buildings of University of Cape Town, in Rondebosch.
SOURCE: http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/misc/norfolk.htm

The late Sergeant Major T Chalmers DCM MSM was described by Major Juta,
author of the first volume of the regiment's history, as "that genius" with
reference to his training of a guard of honour for the 1925 visit to
Johannesburg of the Prince of Wales.
SOURCE: http://www.jocks.co.za/monument.htm

King's Park Rose Garden was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1925 and
contains over 4 000 rose bushes.
SOURCE: http://www.saembassy.ru/en/tourism/nc-fs

An easy one and a half hour trail, in the famous Red Hills. During a 1925
visit to South Africa, the Prince of Wales declared it to be one of the most
beautiful landscapes he had ever seen. Langenhoven (an Afrikaans
poet/writer) used it as inspiration when he wrote the former national
anthem.
SOURCE: http://www.geocities.com/monsr_za/framescript.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheena Bass" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: RE: [ZA] Royal visits


> I believe that the Duke made his own visits several years prior to that.
As
> I recall there was some indication that he had been somewhat wild and was
> "escape" from his security guard so as to go "play" in the various ports
> visited during his visit. This was prior to his abdication of course.
> Again as memory serves me (and I am relying on third hand accounts) I
> believe that the Prince of Wales was responsible for the publication of
> memoirs of his life and may also have contributed to another book about
the
> Royal family.
>
> Keith is right about the visit of the Royal family in 1947 - it was in the
> Spring of that year and they visited South Africa and Rhodesia. But that

> was not the visit to which I think was originally referred.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Meintjes [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: [ZA] Royal visits
>
>
> My Mother gave me a medal from the Royal Family visit in, I think, 1947 or
> 1949. This was in Johannesburg. The big deal was the Princess Elizabeth,
> who
> was the to be Queen, was about the same age as my Mother.
>
> The Prince likely arrived on a British Navy ship, which would have docked
at
> Simonstown. The route from Cape Town would be along Main Road, through
the
> southern suburbs: Rondebosch, Wynberg, Muizenberg, Fish Hoek, etc.
>
> In the old days (of sailing ships), Simonstown was used as a winter port
for
> protection from the prevailing winds and storms. After the construction of
> docks and breakwaters in Table Bay, Simonstown harbour became a naval
base.
>
> Other historians may wish to correct my memory, but even when ZA left the
> Commonwealth in 1962 (?), Britain retained rights to use Simonstown as a
> naval
> base.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Keith
>
> "dpratt" <> wrote:
>
> There are some excellent new books on the History of Cape town by Elizabeh
> Van Heynegen (?Spelling) and Vivian Bickford Smith. The trip to Camps Bay
> has a picture of the Prince on trolley car. Year? I seem to remember
> either 1925 or 1929 but that is just a gut feeling. The books are too
> expensive for me to own. I don't have any other books dealing with cxape
> Town history post 1900 I'm afraid so I'll have to look it up at the
library
> next time I go (books due next monday so I'll be going then only)
>
> Derek
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Vass" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] Observatory Road
>
>
> > Hi Derek
> >
> > Would your parishioner remember exactly when in the year this was? I do
> not
> > know Cape Town - never visited SA. So I do not know Camps Bay, Geneva
> Drive
> > etc.
> >
> > My husband's 94 year old uncle tells the story of the Prince of Wales'
> > entourage passing by the boarding house(?) where the family was waiting
to
> > immigrate to Australia (from Middelburg). He does not remember where
this
> > was but he too had a good view - he remembers looking down and the
Prince
> > looking up and winking at him (Uncle Jack tells a good story!) . I
> thought
> > perhaps it might have been somewhere around Observatory Road because
that
> is
> > where his aunt and her family might have been living and he definitely
> > remembers visiting them.
> >
> > So, are Camps Bay and Observatory consistent with a trip into the CBD or
> > wherever the Prince might have been going?
> >
> > Regards
> > Lorraine Vass
> > Wyrallah
> > Northern Rivers NSW
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "dpratt" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ZA] Observatory Road
> >
> >
> > > <<prompting me to ask whether there is anyone out there who remembers
> the
> > > visit to Cape Town of the Prince of Wales in 1925.>>
> > >
> > > Needless to say his was well before my time but a parishioner from
Camps
> > Bay
> > > remembers it. He told me he was a little guy whose parents house was
> just
> > > below Geneva Drive (he is still living in he house today). The prince
> and
> > > his entourage came over the neck and down Geneva Drive on the tram
that
> > use
> > > to run in those days. My parishioner was up a tree to get a good
view.
> > >
> > > Derek Pratt
> > >
> > >
> > >
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