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What Manner of Man Is This? Sir Orville Turnquest’S New Biography of the Duke of Windsor Is Unique and a Must- Read for All Bahamians 22 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, December 16, 2016 literary lives sir orville turnquest What manner of man is this? Sir Orville Turnquest’s new biography of the Duke of Windsor is unique and a must- read for all Bahamians, Sir A detail of the cover of Sir Orville Turnquest’s new biography of the Duke of Former Governor General Sir Windsor reveals the sharply dressed, diffident Duke in stark contrast to the Christopher Orville Turnquest Bahamians around him. marry a twice-divorced commoner, and to a small, remote island colony Ondaatje then reluctantly accepted a position of the British Empire during as Governor of the Bahamas. This is “His personal such a dramatic period in world says a book that everyone in the Bahamas history led the United States should read. attitude of and Britain to place a special The Bahamas was then a colony, focus on the Bahamas. Why Sir and for the Duke it meant banishment superiority, together Orville Turnquest is so quali- hat is extraordinary about and a geographical position far away fied to write about this man and the biography ‘What from European and German influence. with his constant this period is that he eventually Manner of Man Is This?’ After renouncing the throne as King became the 70th in the chain is that it was written by Edward VIII of Great Britain, Ireland display of class of succession to the important Wa black Bahamian who was born in and the British Dominions (the only Governor’s job. Grant’s Town on July 19, 1929, who other job he had ever had) on Decem- preJudice and While all of the other books earned his way from “Over the Hill” - ber 10, 1936, he assumed his new title about the Duke and Duchess of the poor section of Nassau - to become Duke of Windsor and was free to marry obvious ingrained Windsor have sought to praise the fifth Governor General of an his mistress, the American Mrs Wallis the couple’s positive involve- independent Bahamas where he served Simpson. bigotry against ment in Bahamian life during from January 3, 1994, until his retire- It may have been the love story of the difficult years of World War ment on November 13, 2001. the age but it was also the scandal of labourers and blacks, II, without exception they have The author, therefore, is well the century. The Duke arrived in the all been written by non-Baha- qualified to write about the Duke of Bahamas in August, 1940, and was exposed his true mians, telling their stories from Windsor who, after only ten months as sworn in as the 55th Governor, and the secondary sources. Sir Orville, King of England, gave up his throne to fact that such a famous man was posted nature as a racist.” on the other hand, has written Friday, December 16, 2016 The Tribune | Weekend | 23 his biography from the point of view The Duke of a black Bahamian who was only 11 “The Duke is and Duch- when the Duke of Winder assumed his ess of position. He was privy to a multitude of exposed as a Windsor happenings during the Duke’s five-year in Bermu- term as Governor. racially biased da in 1940, Sir Orville also had the privilege of en route serving not only as a Bahamian Cabinet individual who to the minister, and later as Governor Gen- Bahamas eral, but has interacted with members fell far short of where the of the Royal Family at both Bucking- Duke was ham Palace and Windsor Castle. His implementing to take up book examines in detail the lives, the the post of record, and the actions of the Duke and any social Governor. Duchess in their roles as Governor and First Lady during one of the most tur- change, bulent periods in Bahamas and world history. With the advantage of firsthand preferring to perspective Sir Orville credits the Duke as doing much to improve the economic mix with the base of the country - but he exposes areas of the Duke’s governance that white oligarchic were abject failures. He also exposes him as a racially minority which biased individual who fell far short of implementing any social change, prefer- comprised only ring to mix with the white oligarchic minority which comprised only 15 per 15 per cent of cent of the Bahamian population, and to accept strictly enforced discrimina- the Bahamian tory practices. In Sir Sidney Poitier’s exceptional population, introduction to Sir Orville Turnquest’s biography he says: and to accept “What makes this book stand out from the many books about the Duke strictly enforced and Duchess of Windsor is that Sir Orville describes the hard life that the discriminatory majority of black Bahamians experi- enced during those years - the racist practices.” culture, the lack of good education, the The Duke and Duchess were unhappy with the living conditions in Govern- subsistence-level jobs if they were lucky ment House and undertook an expensive renovation. “Small, hideous, hardly enough to have one, the dire living any furniture - all unsatisfactory”, the Duchess had written in a letter before conditions and the lack of full voting arriving in the Bahamas rights and adequate representation to address these very issues - he speaks of Bahamian history. One of its goals only white officials, their wives and their feelings be known, moved out knowledgeably and with the authentic- is to intertwine the unique history and prominent individuals in the white com- of Government House after only one ity that only someone from that time geography of the islands with the his- munity. Nevertheless, at a ceremony week, and in one of his first meetings and place can provide. When he takes tory and legacy of one man. It succeeds at Clifford Park, the black commu- the Duke proposed that the building the former King to task for doing little in doing this, and sometimes makes nity turned out in their thousands to be renovated at some considerable to nothing to address the racial dispar- startling revelations. Even before ar- welcome the new Royal Governor. expense while the Royal couple first ity that existed at that time, he speaks riving to take up his post in 1940, the They made it a festive occasion and the moved into a palatial residence on passionately from the deep well of Duke wrote to his London solicitor Duke then assiduously set about his Prospect Ridge owned by the Brit- personal experience that only a young George Allen describing his feelings task of governance and to preside over ish millionaire Frederick Sigrist, and black boy from ‘Over the Hill’ can feel about “taking up this wretched appoint- the regular meetings of the Executive later that summer to Westbourne - the ... And when he analyses the few ac- ment” and saying that he viewed “the Council. The Duchess started her own country mansion owned by Sir Harry complishments and many failures of the prospect of an indefinite period of exile duties as First Lady - including the Oakes - until the refurbishments were Duke of Windsor’s tenure in the office on those islands with profound gloom task of renovating Government House completed. A new three-storey west of Governor of the Bahamas he speaks and despondency”. He further wrote to on Mount Fitzwilliam which the Duke wing was added to Government House authoritatively from the experience of Winston Churchill saying that it “leaves and Duchess found to be completely with four guest suites to accommodate someone who has hands-on knowledge no doubt in my mind but that my ban- unbefitting as their living quarters. “I his personal staff. Expensive air-con- of the manner of the office that both of ishment to these islands was as good a have awful reports of the house - small, ditioning units were installed in each these men held.” war time expedience for a hopeless and hideous, hardly any furniture - all un- of the major rooms including the west Banishment insoluble situation as could be found”. satisfactory”, the Duchess had written wing. It was not a good beginning. ‘What Manner of Man Is This?’ is an All the arrangements for the official in a letter before arriving. unvarnished account of a crucial stage welcome of the new Governor included The Windsors therefore, letting Continued on page 24 24| The Tribune | Weekend Friday, December 16, 2016 Photo: AAron DAvis Continued from page 23 Damning insight The next year the Duke, in a confidential letter written on July 26, 1941, to the Right Honourable Walter Moyne - the Secretary of State for the Colonies - wrote that “the Membership of the Council I have inherited in the Bahamas leaves much to be desired”. Nevertheless, on August 21, 1940, the Duke used his power to convince his Executive Council to make an interest- free war loan to Britain of £250,000 (equivalent to US$1 million) from the colony’s surplus funds. Hardly an arms- length transaction. He also wrote in the same letter “any suggestion of the appointment of a coloured member to Executive Council would not only be unwelcome but meet with the utmost hostility”. This is a candid portrayal of the Duke of Windsor’s assessment of the Bahamian local leadership of that period. A damning insight. In Sir Orville’s incisive and historical biography he describes the collapse of the Bahamian tourist industry in the months following the Japanese bomb- ing of Pearl Harbour in December, 1941, resulting in serious unemploy- ment as a major problem. However the British and American governments had agreed to build a number of military Sir Orville Turnquest’s son, Tommy, watches over his father at a book signing at Logos bookstore, Harbour Bay Shop- bases in the West Indies, one being ping Plaza.
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