SPOT YELLOW

Birmingham Mail, Thursday 20 November 1913

“SPOT YELLOW.”

An amusing story is told of King George when he was a naval cadet. One evening he was playing the variety of billiards known, we believe, as “snooker”; his ball was “spot yellow.” When it camo to the Prince’s turn to play (says “Modern Society”) the marker, greatly perturbed, went over to one of the cadets; “Please, sir,” he said, “am I to call him ‘Your Royal ’Ighness’ or ‘spot yellow’?” Of course the story got out, and for a couple of years Prince George was known to his fellow cadets as “spot yellow.”