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(N the dark hours of a gusty February morning
a tap came on the bedroom door of Queen Elizabeth in the royal palace near, Brus- sels,
The Queen opened the door. A little group of distracted cour- tiera outaido ceased their whispering and stood in silence.
A few hours earlier her, hus- band Albert had slipped on a crag while rock-climbing near Namur, and had crashed to his death. The Queen did not yet · know.
From the courtiers she learn- ed first that there had been an accident, a serious accident.
That intuition which is every woman's told her the rest.
In the white faces of the courtiers, in their strained voices, she read at once the ter- Tible story which brought to an end thirty-two years of married happiness, and which trans- formed her from a brilliant, gifted, loving wife into a widow Stubbs Road #rown suddenly lonely and old
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That was two years ago.
She went to where her hus- band's body lay. There were three officers on guard in the room, and two nuns praying,
The Queen dismissed them all, and was alone with her dead. She flung herself on her knees in prayer. And there, hours later, the nuns and officers found her when they tiptoed back.
at last FINDS
BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
est decision of her life. Should she stand by her husband in his determination to resist the Ger
man
invasion or use her in- fluence to secure passive neu- trality?
HAPPINESS
Everything was changed. In with the royal couple, and the life they were inseparable. He accident which killed Queen was half of her, When he died Astrid deprived her of a verit- half of her was dead.
able daughter.
She retired to their castle at Laeken, on the outskirts of
Brussels, and was inconsolable, TN the night train that carried The vivacious, merry, brilliant her north from Naples to the Queen who was constantly en- Brussels so full of memories, the riching her circle of friends was Queen Mother knew quite well no more. Instead was a heart- the great task that faced her, of broken Queen-Mother, with no
Interest in life, shunning all comforting her son in his great society.
grief, forgetting her own for Soldiers stood at the castle children. Knew this, and faced his, mothering his motherless entrance, but no visitors came it unfaltering,
WAS
or went. Except for her son,
When she arrived in Brussels, King Leopold, and his wife, Queen Astrid, and a few she went straight to the palace privileged people, no one
of Lacken-the palace where admitted.
she had nearly died in her own sorrow and took charge of the HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL three little children. They had Inside the castle everything been told only the previous day was as it was on that fateful of their mother's death. This day when Kisg Albert left to go was the first day of their tragic rock climbing-his desk still realisation.
covered with piles of book and papers, as if awaiting the royal signature; his clothes hanging as he left them.
WHEN THEIR TEARS CEASED Only two of them-Josephine, aged nine, and Baudouin, aged.
She was never very strong, five-could understand what under the strain of her they had been told. The baby, and grief her health began to fail. Albert, aged one, looked, wide-.
She could not sleep. She eyed and understanding nothing, lost weight constantly. At on their tears. Inst, perhaps only just in
The Queen-Mother went down time, when she weighed only to the nursory, and when she six stone, her doctors inter left the tears had ceased. "Fight," she said at once.
vened.
She came back to her son, "If I could, I would open my veins and drain out every drop to leave the scene of her sor They urged her to go away,
who was distraught with grief, and, after a talk with him, decided to take over the care of her grandchildren.
of Bavarinn blood." She volunteered as a nurse,
row. She acceded. She went to
No words can describe that dressed the soldiers' wounds, and Italy, to her daughter, the love. While Albert was alive was given the Military Medal Princess of Piedmont.. she mirrored it for all the world for "her gallantry and noble
army.'
A former Governor of Hong-to see. She was the best-dressed example to her people and kong. Baron Lugard, has, we queen in Europe, the most observe, intervened in the cussion which has arisen
at
The children were placed in the hands of governesses and nurses, but the Quech-Mother - decided to be with thom and to try to give them something of
August, 1936. dis-versatile, the most accomplished She renounced all rights of The Queen Mother was sitting
in all the arts. She studied her birth, all contact with her with her daughter in the beauti- the care and intense affection medicine, and took her M.D. de- native people, for her husband. ful, flower-scented garden of they had known through their Home regarding the proposal | grec. She loved music, and It was years after the war be the Villa Rosebery,
played the violin exquisitely. fore a reconciliation was effected Naples. She was afraid of nothing. She was absolutely carefree between her and her Bavarian
that Britain should make some sort of territorial or commercial redistribution of colonies, `es- pecially those in Africa. No-one more qualified to express views on this matter, since Lord Lugard spent a great deal of his
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outside mother.
They knew nothing of that
terrible car crash by the placid QU
UEEN ELIZABETH cast HER GREATEST DECISION All through the years, wher- shores of Lake Lucerne, where aside her own grief and · She was a Bavarian princess ever she went she radiated her death had come suddenly to her lavished her care and attention by birth, and on the outbreak of happiness. She took all that son's wife, the beautiful Queen on her three motherless grand- war she had to make the great- life had to offer, and was brave Astrid.
children. She returned to the to the point of recklessness. Captain Turinette, aide-de supreme service she had shown Once in a tour of America she camp to the Prince of Piedmont, to the world while her husband was shown a mountain lion in a was announced and stood awk was alive.
wardly before them. When ho She stroked 11 through the spoke it was in a slow and thick- bars; then, before any one ened voice. could stop her, opened the A motor accident...Leopold door and stepped into the injured... Astrid ... cage.
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The straine of her violin were heard again in the castle-for the first time in nearly two years. The anxious courtiers heard her laughter mingling with that of the children's-and rejoiced. Her health improved. She
The chief tutoress is the Com- tesse Della Saille, in whom Queen Elizabeth has the greatest confidence, and who is in supreme charge of those who instruct the children.
their outlook in- timately. If there should be HOPE FOR THE REFUGEES eny transference of mandates, The ratification by Denmark of the lays it down as an absolute the International Convention on
condition that there should be the Status of Refugees, recently The lion showed temper, was particularly painful to gained weight. Her doctors, - the willing consent, or the com-much-needed encouragement. The thing but the docile animal it she who had chosen Astrid as a the early part of the winter in announced, will bring a little snarled and anapped; was any Queen Elizabeth, because it was impressed, allowed her to spend plete indifference, of a large position of the many hundreds of had appeared to be before. wife for her son, as an incom- Belgium. majority of the populations af-hundreds of thousands of refugees
scattered over the world le perhaps Quickly, but calmly, the-parable mate in her opinion. Nearly every morning QueenTM- fected. He is convinced, how-worse to-day than it has ever been. Queen stepped backwards out of HELPED TRUE LOVE MATCH Elizabeth joins the children in ever, that the result in the Not only is their economic position the door. Then she laughed
the nursery for their breakfast, She Was the one who and they are the first ones ad- British mandated territories not improving, it is actually steadily heartily at the frightened escort
deteriorating under the stress of who had rushed to assist her, facilitated their union, who had mitted to her bed-chamber. would be an emphatic desire for
economic nationalism in
to his bride's almost and at the gentle chiding of the taken her son
HEARS THEIR PRAYERS no change. One point which every country. The Convention King..
Scandinavian home, and who Lord Lugard puts forward, as a
was drawn up in 1933, in an at-
She also sees them to bed and welcomed "The crown hus no meaning," had
the Princess
hears their prayers. In the possible solution, is a return to /tempt to remove at lonat some few she said once, "unless it is a Astrid to the Chateau Ciergnon: afternoon she often assists at She was the one who brought their lessons, and shows the the "Open Door" policy in the which refugees suffer. It provides symbol of service."
these two charming young African territories this, of that states shall issue certificates
people together and who brought keenest interest in any progress course, provided other Colonini in lieu of passports to refugees
residing in their territories; shall THEN came that February about a true love match. She they make in the many subjects Powers were prepared to bear not expel refugees except for rea
enjoyed the greatest intimacy they are studying. their share in the collective sons of national security or public effort. Answering the plea of rights in respect of their legal order; shall allow them certain
over-crowding and the need of status, and shall not apply against other nations for room to ex-them in all their severity laws etc. pand, Lord Lugard mentions that national labour markets; while in enacted for the protection of England has a population more the cases of certalu categories of than double the density per refugees, such laws are suspended square mile of either Germany this Convention would undoubtedly altogether. If generally adopted.
or Italy, and he concludes with do good deal--although still not this pertinent question: "Has nearly as much as is needed-to [every nation which is sufficiently alleviate the lot of this mast wretched category of human beings. insistent and has taken steps to whose sufferings In almost every increase its population a right to case are as unmerited as they are claim a Colony for its surplus, countries have hitherto ratified. Unhappily, only three and as a field for economic ex-Denmark making the fourth. The Pansion, regardless of whether matter is particularly urgent in the territory already has a view of the proposals recently made, population of its own?" In this Nations,
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ly in no wise betrayed her trust. There may conceivably be room categorically stated that it is not for economic
considering handing over Briùsh readjustments, Colonies or mandated territories provided the movement is made to any foreign Power, nor is it of general colonial application, contemplating any barter of but the British Government itas territories whatever.
Queen Elizabeth seems to live to take the place of the lost mother, and her life is one of indulgence and generosity, of self-effacement for the children, When she was away in Naples to take a needed rest in the autumn she showed also the greatest affection for her grand- daughter, Maria-Pia.
She insisted on returning to Brussels for Christmas Eve to celebrate Christmas with her grandchildren. There was E great Christmas-tree, around which the children guthored and Joyfully tore toys from the illuminated branches.
Queen Elizabeth devotes long hours to her son Leopold, and after dinner they often remain... together in Jong and serious. conversation until the time to retire.
The Queen exercises over her. son a most profound influence, and has been of the greatest aid to him in the sorrow, which has burdened his shoulders since the: loss of his father and his wife.
The Queen insists on remain- ing in the background. She re- ceives no visitors, excepting the most intimate friends.
She lives only for her son and for her grandchildren, and her
mother and grandmother.
"If I wait for him to succeed he might got away, and if I unique desire is to be the perfect
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aight turn out to ka a' flon,"_after_all."