FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

MAY 10, 1947

GEORGE Bernard Shaw issued a manifesto to the House of Commons, the Lords, and the Dail [the Irish parliament], calling for simplified spelling which, would save two months’ working days per scribe every year. ‘I reflected on the number of plays Shakespeare would have had time to write if he had written them in the alphabets of Pitman, Sweet, or Gregg [shorthand systems],’ Mr Shaw tells the legislators.

MAY 10, 1957

TWO hospital sisters were at Buckingham Palace last night to look after eight-yearold Prince Charles, who had his tonsils and adenoids removed yesterday. The operation took place in the hospital room at Buckingham Palace in which Prince Charles was born. The Queen and Prince Philip saw their son’s room before Dr Sheldon gave him the sleep pill disguised with jam.