A Visit by the Prince of Wales....
Below in 2013, Joan Shoucair, left in the picture, shared refreshments in the English Cotswolds with two American friends, Barbara Holliman and Russell Hoover of Pennsylvania. While visiting Joan told us of an amazing visit to Uganda in her childhood by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.
Below in 2013, Joan Shoucair, left in the picture, shared refreshments in the English Cotswolds with two American friends, Barbara Holliman and Russell Hoover of Pennsylvania. While visiting Joan told us of an amazing visit to Uganda in her childhood by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.
The time was October 1928, and the 34
year old prince was touring, yet once again, the colonies and protectorates of
the world-wide British Empire.
Joan, age 7, and her mother, Elsie W. Newton Pawsey, had moved to Uganda to join Joan's father, Henry 'Bert' Pawsey, a businessman, just the year before.
In Joan's numerous scrapbooks and photograph albums, she has saved from her parents, are two striking pictures of the Prince of Wales taken during the visit to Kampala. Joan believes they were snapped by her Mother and never before have been published.
If not, they are amazing find, and with Joan's permission, we post them. Joan reserves all rights to the use of the photographs. Below is His Royal Highness standing next to the Rolls Royce that was used as his mode of transportation while in Kampala.
Joan, age 7, and her mother, Elsie W. Newton Pawsey, had moved to Uganda to join Joan's father, Henry 'Bert' Pawsey, a businessman, just the year before.
Below, a
newspaper clipping on the visit.
In Joan's numerous scrapbooks and photograph albums, she has saved from her parents, are two striking pictures of the Prince of Wales taken during the visit to Kampala. Joan believes they were snapped by her Mother and never before have been published.
If not, they are amazing find, and with Joan's permission, we post them. Joan reserves all rights to the use of the photographs. Below is His Royal Highness standing next to the Rolls Royce that was used as his mode of transportation while in Kampala.
Below is an action photograph of the Prince,
closest to the camera, striding rapidly, possibly at Makerere College, a school
of higher education he inspected during his time in Kampala.
On the back of the picture, Elsie has
identified the persons in the photograph. They are the Prince of Wales,
Colonel Harvey, Sir William F. Gowers - Governor of Uganda (1925-1932),
General Trotter and Sir Henry Shiffair?, ADC to the Governor.
