The Field

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SOONER or later the shape of things to come is revealed to each of us. To a prince who is next-in-succession to the throne, the revelation is made soon rather than late. On a day when the whole grown-up world rejoices, there must occur to a boy aged not yet five, the question: “What if all that happened to me?”

Soldiers marching, drums rolling, standards fluttering, horses posting by, colour, music and that excitement which communicates itself even to those whose

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