. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. ge consistsof a dark blue velvet garter edged with gold, with gold buckle andpendant, and bearing the motto, Honi soil qui mal y pense. HisRoyal Highness is very fond of wearing the Collar of the Bath, ofwhich he is now Great Master. The actual Order itself consists ofa Maltese cross, a collar of gold, a star, a habit, and a crimsonriband. The Princes own favourite among his Orders is that of Malta,the Sovereign Order of St. J
. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. ge consistsof a dark blue velvet garter edged with gold, with gold buckle andpendant, and bearing the motto, Honi soil qui mal y pense. HisRoyal Highness is very fond of wearing the Collar of the Bath, ofwhich he is now Great Master. The actual Order itself consists ofa Maltese cross, a collar of gold, a star, a habit, and a crimsonriband. The Princes own favourite among his Orders is that of Malta,the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of which the badgeis the well-known Maltese cross suspended from a black in Scotland, His Royal Highness wears on State occasions theOrder of the Thistle, of which the badge is a figure of St. Andrewin enamelled gold, bearing a St. Andrews cross, surrounded bygolden rays terminating in eight principal points in the form ofa glory. When the Prince of Wales is in Paris he generally wears therosette of an officer of the Legion of Honour. This enables him,when walking about the town incognito^ to pass unchallengedanywhere and Mr. John Porter and Mr. Richard Marsh, the Princes Past and PresentTrainers, and John Watts, his Jockey From Photcgraphs by Elliott & Fry, and Clarence Hailey CHAPTER XIX THE PRINCE AS A SPORTSMAN THE TURF PERSIMMON S DERBY THE DERBY-DAY DINNER HUNTING SHOOTING DEER-STALKING YACHTING. The Prince of Wales has always taken a very keen interest in thosesports and pastimes which are peculiarly British, and perhaps it isto this that he owes his remarkable bodily vigour and healthyappearance, for he is never so content as when enjoying a long daystramp over the stubble at Sandringham, or when deer-stalking in asoft Highland mist. His Royal Highnesss life as a sportsman began early. Whenhe was quite a child he used to accompany Prince Albert on deer-stalking expeditions round Balmoral ; somewhat later he huntedwith the harri
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