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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1900,

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Beginning the personality story of the year

MOTHER of the QUEEN

SERENE AND TRANQUIL....... YET SHE HAS KNOWN SADNESS, TURMOIL AND LONELINESS

At 60, she

learns conjuring tricks

THE Duke of York picked up an axe and strode into The Enchanted Wood. It was January 1923, and it wasn't much of a wood. Why it had a reputation for enchantment no one knew, but that's what it was called for miles round in the Hertfordshire countryside, even in the stark and leafless days of winter,

The Duke disappeared into the gloom to chop a tree, and it was there, in that corner of her father's estate, the blue-eyed, brown-haired, 22-year-old Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon' found him.

Everyone knew he was In

love with her. His aspirations By

were no secret at all. In fact, up at Glamis Castle, Lady Eliza- beth's Scottish home, the letonis had held little. formal uncelings to discuss the wedding present,

feeling cny

Harrods.. and Barkers. and

Always, for the children, the heart-warming smile

and

Elizabeth was then the Queen, she loved and moved on through They usually arrive with the and arrangements

Whisicy were being cloudless days until her life was corgies

Sherry, made for her elder daughter's fulfilled. What a false plcture. and as there are already six Her children grown up and dogs walling for them the room marriage.

She remembered that ordeal with lives of their own: a home is soon a massive confusion of

biscuits, said firmly "We won't in the country; family visits and chocolate

orangeade, and have anything like that this grandchildren about her to spoll animals, glasses, crumba drink- time," and they didn't.

....that should be the easy ing bowls, and litter. pattern of her future life.

But that is wrong too.

Marred

ROBERT Waring and Gillows and lined hot casserole, and lee cream.

GLENTON

fluence to

the procession streets as special constables, a favourite off-duty pastime of theirs in those days. And the R.A.F. bandsmen put on a newly designed uniform. have an engage-

The Labour Party leaders ment ring in his pocket.

(having trouble

then), even If there was

10 suppress their But astonished or not by the managed at all it was one of gentle actual proposal, lady Elizabeth republican elements long enough exasperation with the Duke hed already a clear idea of what to present a unanimous, vole of that his proposal was so long the ring was going to look like, congratulation. delayed.

Immediately afterwards she It was a golden, uplendid, So the story grew that he said she had seen the one she wedding.

wanted. "It's beautiful," she Afterwards the bride went off and already sought Lady described happily. "It's a half with hor new husband on a quiet Elizabeth's hand Twice and

hoop made up of two diamonds honeymoon at Polesden Lacey, she had turned him down,

Then they went to On that grey day in the and a sapphire...my favourite in Surrey.

stone....in the centre,"

Glamis. woods, the Duke paused, put

And like every other lovely Only two things marred the lown his axe, and smiled at girl, engaged the pretty girl in the tweeds man, she got it.

to a rich young wedding. First, the inordinate length of the wedding breakfast. It consisted of soup, salmon, lamb cullets, chicken, and pud- ding. It went on and on,

and the flat-heeled shoes. And, es suddenly as that, asked her to marry him.

For a moment she did not answer. As she said afterwards.

Impatient

"When the moment actually There was jubilation. King I George V and Queen Mary

comt it is +

surprise.

thought it over for 4 minuto expressed their joy. and then said "Yes," I'm not.

The impatient bride wand groom had to wait an hour and a half before the toasts they could be proposed and could escape.

It

The wedding breakfast for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillo consisted of fillet of sole,

was over in 20-minutes.

Only this year Princess Mar-

From her garet too benefited mother's experience.

thing marred that wedding in 19237 The bride returned from the honeymoon with an attack of whooping cough.

And the other

that

The prop

the

'Show me

At an official dinner the Queen Mother swatched a con- Jurer and then afterwards asked The woman who wayed gally him to teach her a particuler at her daughter's wedding has trick, "Please show me how it's food á life of storm and peril, done," she begged. "I should like to surprise my grandson.” of sadness and loneliness,

The girt from the manor house And she tld. Her magia who liked to walk in the rain became a family joke, so the our Queen Mother learned more and prop of became

"But It's so dimeult to monarchy when it most needed more.

keep up with the demand," she one.

And even now when she has sighed. handed many of her responsi- bilities to her daughter, and the thought of quiet days. is tempt-.

Her story is dramatic. but home in Scotland and who still walks through the rain in her old tweeds: who is an practical na most of her generation and is happy with just rush matting and a tarian rug on her boudoir floor; who says "I don't see why these will be quite comfortable," I should spend any more when

Now Charles goes in for magic himself and teaches her tricks. It is a familiar. happy pattern.

All that was a long time ago. Mg, rest is sill a long way off. The grandmother who has a This year lovely Lady Eizabeth there nothing larger-than- was 60. She is the Queen fe about the Queen Mother. Mother, a grandmother, and a She is a person almost every mother of a bride for the second family knows. As normal and tline.

as sane as a school report.

Her idea of a quiet evening is supper on a tray as she sits In an armchair and watches tele- vision.

Her smile is just as swarm, her eyes sit as fascinatingly blue, and her complexion is still that unlawed miracle of soft ness that makes all the women who meet her marvel,

Her voice is youthful and her laugh is soft, Comfortable

and tranquil she sat In

the

Abbey and smiled her blessing on Princess Margaret,

In the school holidays Charles and Anne frequently go cross from Buckingham Palaco Clarence House in the morning There could be no more com- to meet the person they call champagne. plete picture of a woman who Granny Royal. She spolls them of at Buckingham Palace. Lady found happines with the man outrageously.

But look at the paradoxes. She is something of a triat to That Highland home is a hor staff, as they often find it castle.... the lonely castle of hard to make her settle down Mey, and she always calls it and come to a decision.

"My little castle."

She does not smoke, and she But she likes lonthes cocktails. to sherry, and is extremely know- ledgeable about wines, especially

On the wedding day the bells

sure that I wasn't the more sur- at the Abbey pealed for three Years afterwards there was to prised at the two."

This was not one of those and a half houra, The male shop be another highly organised and success. assistants left the counters

fully staged royal marriages

of history. It was so much a

simple love story that the

Duke had not even the

ton-

wedding breakfast

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Unnoticed, a man steps into

I

power..a man I predict will soon be as big as Castro..

AN unknown but fas-

cinating figure has just stepped on to the world stage. His name

by PAUL JOHNSON

So long as the machine held seat of Sao

with Nasser in the Argb world, Het to the test, he will bring

he is a living stogon who can himself into headlong con bring the mobs tumbling into tinanol-wide

with the streets.

Quadros is the product of a

La mood. with his back-

ground of the solid prosperity

conflict

Castro.

Big battle

Paulo-Brazli's of Sao Paulo, he believes that Hence, these two young, able

is Janio Quadros. And he has just been elected together, Brazilian polities and boom-city and Into the Gov- Brazil, President of Brazil by two dominant

at any rate, need no and passionate men are squar-

characteristics error's chair of Sao Paulo stute. longer fear the power of foreign ing up for one of the most Internally labyrinthine corrup-

1 massive landslide don; externally, fierce national- majority.

ism, which regarded foreign capital--chiefly United States as a dangerous enemy.

Faltered

Firebrand

capital. Brazil, he thinks, is significant battles of our timer, now brawny enough In its own So far, Castro has had it all his right to treat the foreign in- own way? his Idcza and vestor not as a potential slave- methods have been steadily His victory has passed

Teach stage,

he has been master, but as simply a work- strengthening their grip on the

more without comment in the British Press. Yet it is of

brand who would never make the old neurotle fears and give conscious young people in the immense significance not

the big time. But now, against private enterprise the green continent. The

spread of only for Brazil, not only

all the odds, he can hang his fight for the task of homessing Custro-style revolutions among for

other bread-line Latin-Amerikan, Latin-America

Ume the machine hat in the marble hall of 10 Brazil's vast interior. (18 BUT this

faltered, Kubitschek, the gilitering How whole,

but also for the creator of Brasilia, was consti palace in Braallia,

presidential raz

Quadros is no doctrinaire. A republics cannot be long delay

cd. he believes world. For Quadros

wily professional, ia tulionally barred from standing His symbol is the broom.

But against this, Quadros 18 in making friends ovarywhere, capitalism's answer to Fidel ngain. Instead, he put up his With it, he has swept corrup Castro.

Defence Ministér, heavy, in on out of the ulilongile is willing to talk to Castro, master of the biggest ropublic Khrushchev or anyone else who of all, with by far the greatest articulate soldier called Mar city of Sao Paulo, and he is has something to offer. His att future potential,

This country For 30 years, Brazil has bern shal Zolt Loit did his best now bent on cloming out the fude Is. To hell with ideologies domlanted by

workers, the powerful to woo the

but in cobwebs of the Varras machine business is business.", politice machine set Up by Janio Quadros

he was up in foderal government. most Buccessful the popular dictator, General against the

But ho atendis for a great deal Vargas. It was

In Latin-Americ

more than this. Hitherto, Latin- based on lite vote-getter big Labour unions on Tammany.

today. style diy caucuses,

Quadros, a young, self-made America's attitude to the out- on hand- Duits for the cases and inflated lawyer, lu public payrolls.

menon on the scale of Angurin nations of the West has been

A realist

patterns

across the

of which hae

D

bren

is now throbbing with ecocamie growth on a tenfo which has to be seen to be grasped, '': Ahd¦ Quadros will now tear away the restraints on foreign inyest- ment which alone have been Jaking it back.

As such, he cuts te political pheno- side world-particularly the big Bayeri With hin great shock dctrinated by a belligerent in- political Even after Vargas cominitted of black hair, bug-eyes and feriority complex, driven by e | suleido - driven to deapale, so wild gestures he is not a rens- Icar and misery of centuries of cerated by 'half-formed ideas the process of turning Brüzil!

This,

The quesiton therefore~ láz can Quadros deliver the goods continent

quickly enough? Can he begin and empty slogans. A hard- into

Western consumeris bitten realist, he bolleves that paradise

before Fidelioma the the experience of 550 Paulo dominates the continent?" 2'he in DI DOUTEC, behind Castro, and proves that capitalism can raise West with over £3,000 ton name living standardo faster than invested in Latin-America, has why his

socialism in. every,' stato

Latin- a major stake in the race) As Amerien. By putting this - bờ,

London Express #orules), '

ha olaimed, by the wickedness suring figure, But he has magle ruthlem exploitation. of foreign capitalist intriguo- In his valee. WH no maching, the machine trundled on and and with no big-money backing dynamis succesfully elected the out until recently, he has success the goingg president, Jusordio fully talked his way into the evokes angry choorg, in

capital. Hubitschek. Ideal council, into the mayor's Latin-Americas

rosion