Read in paper that there was a great monarchist demonstration in Bavaria, and a reunion of all officers and veterans in the old regime. So lives monarchy in Bavaria! It must have been an inspiring sight to see the glorious uniforms and grandees of pre-war days. – Trafficked stamps with Brian Moffat during work-time. After dinner cleared over 100 stamps. Mám and I saw the Stockleys off on the ‘Killarney’, Sophie to Worthing near Bournemouth, Southampton, Madame to Munich. Walked some of the way with Professor, who told me that ex-Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria is the real Stuart heir to the English throne, and before the war, the English Society of the Red Rose used to send him congratulations on his birthday! Went to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and enjoyed it immensely. It is a horrible, grotesque, and yet fantastic story of a hideous death-like ‘phantom’ who lived in the lowermost cellars of the Paris Opera. He inspired and trained a prima donna, remaining unseen the while. Then brought her to his hiding-place. She, though warned, removed the mask which concealed his loathsome features, and thus would have perished had not her lover foiled his intricate defence of floods, because a gun possessed.
