Eye Sees
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What The Royal Eye Sees
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a man who says what he means.
In his recent tour of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony he was having a talk with some New Zealand guests at a reception aboard the Britannia, when he drew at tention to the ex-servicemen’s association badges they were wearing. The badges were ones which carry a clip in dicating the year the associ ation’s due were last paid, and these were sadly out of date.
“You are unfinancial,” safd the Duke, to the men’s em barrassment. “You are not entitled to wear those badges!”
Later, the Duke was heard saying in an aside to some body: “I always like to look at badges. It’s surprising the things you find people wear ing!”