Spinner Twitted

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, only daughter-in-law of Their Majesties, was last week announced to be for the second time with child.

If Edward of Wales should die a bachelor, and if the babe now imminent is a boy, he would become in natural course the 'future King and Emperor.

First child of the bonny, blooming "Little Duchess" is Princess Elizabeth of York who recently was three (TIME, April 29) Famed as "Baby Betty" before she could talk, she now asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave.

When the Royal babe is born the sex will be officially verified and announced by onetime cotton spinner John Robert Clynes, now Home Secretary in the Labor Government, whose friends were already beginning last week to twit him.

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