THE
TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER
·1998.
USED TO LIVE IN WINDSOR CASTLE
Once Queen Alexandra's Maid Of Honour Now Looks For Job
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NCE Queen Alexandra's favourite maid of hon- our, married in a private chapel at Buckingham Palace, accustomed to dine with kings and princes, to live in Windsor Castle-the Hon. Mary Bell, now an. active, white-haired widow of over 60, is looking for a job.
This woman, whose lively mind' recalls many in- triguing stories of Court life when Edward VII. was on the Throne, wants to act as courier to American tourists in England, says the Sunday Express.
Since Murch she has lived in a five-roomed cottage, which she rents, at Sevenoaks, Kent.
Before her husband's death, twelve years ago, her home was 30-roomed Bourne Park, Canterbury, now own ed by Sir John Prestige.
HER OWN COOK
She kept ten servants. To-day she cannot afford one.
Yel the cake table hind a regal beauty!
was part of the dessert ref given by the Emperor of Austria to Emily Marchioness of Londonderry in 1815.
There are signs everywhere in the Windsor; a coltage of her life at signed photograph of Queen Alexan- dra, dated 1987 and a gllt mirror which the Queen presented to Mrs. Bell.
"I little thought when I was mar- Palace, in the small chapel usually reserved for Royalty-a great com- pliment to B cammoner-that should one day be a widow looking for a job," Mrs. Bell said wistfully.
This granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Sandwich, whose childhoodried in July 1004 at Buckingham home was Lullingstone Castle, Kent, own meals. She now cooks her taught herself to cook.
"Death duties taxed me out of my old home when my husband died," she told the Sunday Express. "I've tried all sorts of jobs.
"I've been an interior decorator, "colour gardener, kept paying guests, | made and sold tapestry and needle- work, run a transport cafe on the Birmingham-Coventry road (which incidentally lost me a great deal of money), and acted
guide,
KING'S GIFT
from Their "My wedding gift Majesties was a pearl and diamond tiara and an Indian shawl.
"The late King George gave me this brooch I'm wearing. (It was in gold in the form of the Prince of as chauffeur-Wales feathers.)
"I was considered one of the three best girl conversationalists of my day when I was mold of honour to Queen Alexandru.
Her-cottage is one of contracts.
On the unvarnished floor is coco- nut matting. At the windows, which look on to a wire-fenced scrap of garden, are rich rose and silver bro- cade curtains that once screened the elegance of the drawing room of her great-grandmother, Louise Countess of Sandwich.
ON TIN TRAY Tea'was served on a small tin tray in a brown earthenware tea-pot,
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"In addition, Queen Alexandra gave me a special gift of £100, and said: 'Don't say anything about it.
"Life at Windsor was very strict. BY
At the age of thirty I was not allow-
UFSI
This interesting picture shows a Chinese mother reunited with her son, although he is held in a Japanese prison camp in Nanking. Under a recent ruling prisoners' relatives and families Here the are permitted to visit the camps at specified times. mother, reunited with her son for the first time in many weeks.. is emotionally overcome.
WOMAN'S THIRD SET OF TWINS GIVING BIRTH to her;
ed to walk in the town of Windsor Old Mrs. unchaperoned.
"I'm not grumbling, you know. have much to look back upon.
than "I am healthier
many a woman twenty years my junior. I was never allowed to smoke, by my father or my husband, and I never have--and nover drink either.
"They used to say I sparkled brighter than champagne and only drank water."
"The new twins are both boys," third set of twins, 36-years- suld Mr. Fullthorpe. "They weigh E. Fullthorpe, of 4lb, and are doing fairly well, al- Northampton, has equalled a though we are not quite easy about world record claimed by Mrs. the condition of one. Jack Dye, of Vancouver,
There are now 17 children in the family, and for their home Mr. and Mrs. Fullthorpe rent iwo houses from Northampton 74. Corporation-Nos. 72 and Cranford Road-which are con- neeted by a door.
"Nine of our children are at school, four have left, and two, apart from the new arrivals,
nol have
yet
started."
Mr. Fullthorpe has been prevented
by Illness from working for nearly I six months.
We Learn by Experience
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