The Prince of Wales testing a Japanese fencing helmet, Japan submarine chaser This recommends that athletics are

This recommends that athletics are 'as necessary to the health of the softer sex' as well as being 'useful aids to innocent flirtation'

Three-quarter length portrait of Seth Ward wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter and seated on a square-backed chair

1450s-1480s

Sir Michael Costa

The Prince of Wales testing a Japanese fencing helmet, Japan submarine chaser This recommends that athletics areThe Prince of Wales testing a Japanese fencing helmet, Japan, 1922. The future King Edward VIII during a royal visit to Japan. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury, a souvenir book published as Edward VIII was crowned following the death of his father, George V, (Daily Express Publication, London, 1936).