THE GIRL FROM THE MANOR HOUSE WAS SWEPT
INTO THE STORM THAT ROCKED THE THRONE
Why the Queen Mother
drives alone
(Continued from Pace 12),.
She whistler when she walks through the Scottish drizzle, but she also whistles at breakfast- time in Clarence House to the skirl of the bagpipes.
at
Three times a week a piper of the London Scottish, of which regiment she is colonel-in-chief, marchas round the garden eight in the morning playing favourite the Queen Mother's eira.
no
She is
highbrow. She much prefers the music-hall to the ballet, the fares to the
drama. and her favourite books are all thrillers by men like Peter Cheyney and Ian Fleming.
She can't drive. lut she is fond of her Jaguar and adozes being driven fast in it. She is In the
the best canasia player
Royal Family
And when she's alone plays a lot of patience.
Rarely ill
The Queen Molber
Finally the Queen Mother saw
und
"I do like II," she said, "But is it rather plain and severe" It is in those clothes that she does her public duty.
This truth
has shaped the
the fussiest of them sil She Queen Mother's life, but in the looked It, admired it,
carly years of her married life, then frowned slightly.
It was largely hidden from her. True, there were no easy days ahead in the Hille streets of Britain. In 1923 the spur already smell of depression hung in the air. Grim-laced miners were to shuffle along the main roads alternating their bitter, thoughts with hynin sing- ing. The General Strike was a back-room plan in working men's clubs, but in 148 Piccadilly the new Duchess of York was building a light-hearted home. She had been # 211620 shattered
after the en-
discover to
the xagement extent of the transformation of her life.
Variations
Before any organised tour, the Queen Mother goes through the arrangement plots with what Llarrner House harassedly calls "a lue-tooth comb."
She makes variations to sunt herself. Some ure a surprise to
dighitar.es the
who are not used to royal visitors,
Even the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, may well have won- she dored why the Queen Mother so adamant about being alone on the long drives through his territory on ber African tour
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never
worries about her figure. Des pite the fact that she has a de- plorably sweet 100th, she will have no truck with massage or any other kind of treatment.
she bas
" can eat anything uny- where." she hus said, and she applies this polley extremely Thoroughly. She is arely 1. apart from a cold or touch of Au in the wluler.
a coraletely And unmatronly interest in horse
At the top of the wide rdeling,
tairs in the splendid roy, bex Di Ascot is a slur. It is inlaid Info the top of a post, and is the object of one of her lively .superstitions,
To touch it is lucky, so the believes, and Queen Mother foudly her lingers brush it be- fore the racing starts,
Her clothes are in krepug with her character. She ilkes tweeds In Scotland, and she wears a grey fell hat that is seven years old.
The format clothes, with all the buttoms and bows she calls "my props."
was
this year.
The reason is simple. On all her tours she likes to slip her shoes off and prop her feet on the opposite seat. And before. long she will grope in her hand- bag and bring out some sweets,
Is the eaty days site often to say to her friends, "I NEVER thought there would be all this fuss."
the Duke were
But she and extremely in love, and everyope wished them well.
And then her two daughters were born. They were eagerly accepted by a country that saw little ahead but gloom.
Lilibet and Margaret Rose were idolisea. There was a flood of whimsy escapism that would have brought a blush to the checks of the most outrageous
usually butter-scotch, Happily love-song writer.
she will suck one as the coun- tryside slips by,
Like all other children in the world, both Charles and Anne have thoroughly explored the estents of their grandmother's handbag #d are, gleefully familiar with those packets of sweets.
'The Queen Muller haw another Habit to while away The miles of motoring. Shu likes to croon to herself songs like "Daisy, Dalsy,"
up a much freer way of life wish and no desire for greatness Lilibet dolls and
Libel to the Royal Family, who ex- heard the voices monotonously rosebud hals, Lillibet
cakex pected their holiday homes to and angrily shout, "We want Litlibet and
We want Edward." rompers, And he merely BA annex of the Edward.
When the Duke of York almost every other small boat
Palace, with almost the same
returned in his naval uniform thul tauk trippers round the formality and protocol.
he was King. Harbour for baly a crown was hastily re-named Margaret Rose.
Infected
emotion that quiet
"
Princess Marie Louise was on! who nouced it. She orce visited the Yorks and said, "Betty has jet in such a lot of drosh air and so charmingly that nobody Ininds."
It was a candyflose
Not even the extremely regal- "The that washed about
minded King George und Queen Lily of Laruna," and, now. house în Piccadilly.
Mary in füct, they were wet! days, "Scultand the Brave."
But the Duke's elder brother, pleased with their daughter-in- the Prince of Wales, Was not lowe
He had so easy, inding le ambitions to late some part in
Accepted
There seemed no reagon why should ever
This is the picture, of a hap- remedying the shocking state of this contentment
the nation, and was finding end. trouble and even suspicion in those fractious days,
py, fulfilled, and contented woman. But her present serenity and tranquility have not been castly won.
They are not the attributes one would expect of a queen who. bad faced on abdication, a war, the bombing of her Palace,
Je toured the distressed areas and inade vows to miners, and the politicians started that he way stepping out of line.
Away from his public duties
She is not particularly Interested in fashion, and always chooses gentle colours: mauves, lavender blue, pink, and a lot and the death of her husband, the Prince of Wales was in
of white.
She always
Hartnell Alters keep in practice.
chets 10 her
2 in 1le more than 10 years. The secrel must te in her own
in French to character and not in her experi-
Those buttons and hers are famous. casion she
WDS
bows of On one oc- being shown dresses, Knowing her genchant for decoration, Nor-
some
mun farinell
sure
had made there was plenty of adornment
on every new of them.
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ence.
Both with the ronurchy and the nation at large, all seemned well. The bitterness of the de- pression was fading away; the King and Queen had celetrated their sliver Jubilee in a wave of rational rejoking; the heir to
no matter the throne, some politiclams thought, immensely polar.
what was
leeled by the tranquility at 145, Piccadilly.
He would join the family and the nursery games. He became
And what was far more im and animal an export at shop
purtant in that Piccadilly home As Tony Armstrong-Jones grab. has been discovering for hims
Winnie-the the Duke of York was much s They invented a self, life in a palace and the
The Duchess nervous, ueal deal more con- Pooh game, 100.
story out aloud fident, and quite happy to spend. would read complications of Joining Inner
and Uncle David and his two his life with his minor royal royal circle have very
iole and the family that rexi difficulties for those not nicces would act the parts. born to this background.
volved around him,
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It was after one of those pre- bedtime sessions that he turned to the young Duchess und said: "You make family life so much fun, Belly."
As the children grew, the Duchess of York felt that they should spend far more time in the country. She and her bus- band asked the King for a weekend collage. And
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The Bittle Princesses were a
joy to every photographer,
Never has a family baro- meter been set more fair, fi certainly did not register the first Chin clouds
tho horizon in 1936.
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gave them the Royal Lodge at Piccadilly, that every family Windsor,
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It was almost derelict. The Duke of York looked at the grounds hopelessly, but not his wife.
She was a country girl, eri had spent most of her life out of doors. With a green balze apron and thick leather gloves she hacked the garden Intu shape, making sure that the Duke helped.
hardly knew the difference between a geranium and a Illy when I started," he said. "But Betty was a wonderfuy Instruc-
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It was a resigned sorrow and would eventually pas But lo days the thin clouds piled and swirled into thunder pillars.
The talk was of the now King and an Mry Simpson, and unheard-of word burat into the royal vocabulary... abdica-
on.
Then came the moment when the Duke and Duchess of Yurk looked at each other and bolh realised that an undreamed of thing had happened, He was to be King; she would be Queer
Burden
The Duchess thought only of her husbond. The happy years had given him health, but how tedium of would the monarchy take all that away? It was a shoelding burden for a physically frail mati,
She went to bed.
Officially
it was announced that she had a cold. Soon there was a COM- mand from Queen Mary, who wished to visit her daughter- in-low.
Propped agatat the pillows, the Duchert thoughtfully handed her visitor an anti-germ Im-
Then pregnated handkerchief. ahe listened as the Queen talked carnelly,
When her mother-in-law had left, the Duchem of York knew thab in a few days she would be ́ Queen,
The Duke had gone to the Palace.
Outside the windows of that peaceful home a crowd gather- cd, and the woman who had’na
Princess Elizabeth and her young sister ran to
him, and for the first time they curtsled. The new Queen was told of this childish gesture....and she wept a Uttle.
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Mistress of Cliveden
THE
THE new mistress of Cliveden, the 29-year-old model Bronwen Pugh
ex-model now, in fact came to her immense 'domain after" her marriage to 53-year-old Lord Astor. What a contrast! The crowd- ed dressing-room of a top-class couture house during the panic rush be- fore a collection is shown could not have been more different than the spacious rooms at Cliveden.
Never again will Bronwen Pugh have to hurry into a dozen diflicult dresses in half an hour.
мосту.
Lord Astor was a bachelor for Cliveden was eged 23. She was so long that many people at one Phillipa Hunloke. Her mother is never Lady Anne Holland-Martin, a Ume thought he would
sister of the tenth Duke of Devon-
of He was 37 before he wag shire and a contemporary married for the first Hime and Lord Astor himself.
When Phillipa met Lord Aster his Arst mistress of Cliveden Was Sarah Norton, the only she was assistant stage manager daughter of the sixth Lord at the Haymarket Theatre, at Grantley, and they were married her happlest wearing back-stage war clothes and excited after un aristorhalle just 庭 month after the
acting course at R.AD.A.
Now she will have a per- sonal maid to wait on her and a staff at her fingers call,
fe
bre
But in the new
of ense and comfort there ended. many new and strange responsibilities.
As
she went from room to tapestried room, did the waves
Gentle
For a time this new mistress of Cliveden seemed to revel in giving the big parties for which the house was famous.
Pretty
of memory of all that has hap Because of travel restrictions
years had to wall two pened in that famous house they touch and envelop the new before taking a honeymoon un Lady Astor.
arauch in Arizona, For instance The famous The marriage did not last.
after their Astor's Very soon parties given by Lord
wag mother, Nanoy Artor, just before William Waldorf the Wir which created the (Waldorf in honour of the U.S. his home for the coming-out
of the family) "Sally" party of Douglas
and the Queen The Queen son Mother. for fustance, went hot there when Lord Astor lent
daughter.
Fairbanks's
suspect phrase "The Cilveden side Set" will Brunwen Pugh, I Astor separated from her hus
her own new band and shortly after wonder, eroale
the
And every weekend there Cliveden Bet with the shy and marriage was dissolved married were large parties and the Is her young man whom she had style of Juxurious living that all reserved
man
who husband?
Arst met when he was at Oxford, Americans think the English Now her life is vastly different Stately Homes must maintain from Cliveden... but that great house with its acres gently do. rolling down to the Thames she says she does not mine at all... Lord Astor looked at his new wife with almost schoolboyish
'Wonderful'
I talked
but which they so seldom
A year after the marriage a daughter, Emily was born, tair and pretty, who showed signs of becoming a great beauty. Lord Astor was delighted because he.
A
to her at Cliveden (the I is pronounced as in Cliff and not as in Clive, the name) pride. ....and her step-children from I asked Bronwen what had adores children, but later the Lord Astor's two previous wives attracted her most about her second marriage was dissolved were playing around her.
husband, and she said: "I sup- and unce more he was She talked of "my wonderful pose his gentleness and because bachelor host. new husband and how I adore he was Sweet to me... and him." and she said: "I always very handsome. wanted to marry the right man. "At first I considered my age. and I talked it over in my job I have been out with and his so many men and met so many several times with my parents. I said to I worried in case it went wrong different types, bul myself all the way along that in case anybody thought I sooner or Was wrong. must wait. That Later I would And the right
man.
"But I never really fell in love until a year lgtk. I mel
Actress
him there she blow a kiss at "But in the end 1 never Lord Asior) at a party in really considered his age at all. London."
1 have never ever really been and in And Lord Astor himself inter- swopt off my
feet Jected to say "Darling, I won- modelling that is pretty diffi-
like cult.. dered what it would be
When he was 48, Lord Astor never married a second time... and his bride and the mistress of
The testing years being married to a model girl.
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They were both smiling and perhaps, who knows, the new mistress of Cliveden will be the most successful of them all.
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