P. G.'s Letter

The ablest jazz pianist in the British royal family is H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, known in the giddier portions of Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with a number of others from Buckingham Palace.

Clerk Cox rapped for order and intoned:

"George, R. I., Private Instructions to our most dear, entirely beloved son:--"

Presbyters almost fell out of their seats. Were they going to hear a private letter from King George to Prince George, pulled from the Buckingham pouch by mistake? As editor of Practice & Procedure in the Church of Scotland, Dr. Cox knew what to do. He mumbled.

Startled at first, then highly amused, Lord High Commissioner "P. G." made no reference to the incident, confined his remarks to recalling the happy coincidence that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Dr. Marshall Buchanan Lang, are brothers.

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