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MAY 4, 1985,

KING AND QUEEN FAMILY FOLK

DEEP AFFECTION IN THE HOME

GRANDCHILDREN CONSTANT SOURCE OF JOY

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out and disponses tea, neither servants nor members of the Hounshold being present an this one occasion in the day..

Thero is happy, friendly con- versation for an hour. Some event which has been attended by one of the party is described, or advice is asked about an engage ment for that night or the next day Little jokes about public duties are shared-this is entirely family Affair-and family matters are discussed.

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QUEEN'S COLLECTIONS. Few human beings could live the kind of life which has fallen to the lot of the King and Queen without some absorbing hobbies to counteract the stronuous round of their days. Reading and light musle are all very well, but some thing Involving a good deal of thought and a deep interest โค necessary also. While the King

and country. Great businesses were established by fathers and handed down to sons, and thenco to grandeons. Boys "inherited" the Navy, the Army, the Church, law, and medicine from the paternal side of the family, the head of which felt a great senge of responsibility to his children, just as the children, in their turn, were imbued with the spirit of aliat duty.

Things have changed-some for the better, aome for the worED- since the prosent reign began, but most people will agree that the find example of home and family life sot by Their Majesties from the very beginning, not only of their reign but of their married life, has been maintained consistently until to-day.

A LADY IN HER HOME The very atmosphero of their aultes at Buckingham

ads that kind of recreation in private

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· (By a Special Correspondent.) The King and Queen are family folk. Nothing his wireless set and in the con-Palace, at Windsor, and, more than is dearer to them than the old traditions of family foreign stutions--the Queen has while

Unual experiment to listen in to all, at Balmoral, spells homeliness; Sandringham-which the life, and they make a great effort-in-spite-of-the- become, in the course of the long King has always regarded na his time taken by their national duties to keep them years of the King's reign, an own country home and not as a up in their own home. A deep affection binds them enthusiastic collector of all kinds royal residence at all-is the per- to their children, and they like to be kept informed She inherited wonderful lace of all that is going on. Long letters pass between the Queen and her only daughter every week, and the King, whose sincere affection for the Princess Royal has been one of the most beautiful things in his family life, looks forward to these weekly budgets telling all that she and her children have been doing, Between the Princess and her father there is, perhaps, a greater bond of sympathy than that which exists between father and sons. For the King has old-fashioned ideas about the women of his house, whom he feels should be cared for and protected as they were in the days of his grandmother.

from her mother, which probably encouraged her to add to her possessions in this way; and her marriage, brought her enough beautiful fans to form the nucicus te world. She was fond, too, of of a collection now famed all over good specimens of old English furniture, especially of the Queen Anne walnut which ja so attrac five, and, having begun to pick up pieces of this here and there, she could not resist the desire to various royal residences with her treasures, the collection of these providing her with many. enjoyable valts to the galleries and show rooms of, well known dealers. Jade is another of her fancies, no Not realising in the lenst what is Waterford ginas. In her search was happening, Princess Margaret for, walnut furniture, she so fre- looked at her in a surprised way quently came across charming and tried to press forward again miniature pieces of perfect period to reach her grandmother.

furniture that she began to collect "Cartsey, Margaret." enme anthese, too. Tunbridge boxes de.

When the Princess was II Rome | skirts, blushed crimson, and time ago and was ordered completo nudged the baby figure excitedly rest, and after her operation for two or three times. appendicitis, His Majesty was con- cerned for a long time. She came to London later for the Season and fulfilled # certain number ef engagements, but her, father was never really at easenhout her. Eventually he lasued what was virtunity an ultimatum that stre must not be allowed to do much la public life until she had regained her strength.

It is only necessary to see father! and daughter together to realise their affection for each other. In Scotland a year or two ngo, when the Princess was in residence with Their Majesties at Holyrood House, a royal gardun party was given as part of the week's

programme. After the first presentations had been made, the queen King and the and her suite want one way, and the Princess Royal the other to seek out guests to whom they wished to speak. His Majesty was in perfect health and in great good humour, and evidently anxious that the Princess should share his pleasure at the re-union with Scottish folk.

Each time they came to a hall to exchange greetings, the King turned to her with a smile and then said in a friendly, but very proud, tone: "You know my daughter, Mary

The Princess's little sons are a constant-source of joy to their grandparents. Both are sturdy boys, extremely intelligent, as fond of horses and of riding as their mother, and very keen, since they went to preparatory school, about sports, especially cricket. elder one, Viscount. Lascelles, is being specially coached now by an old Yorkshire cricketer, and it is the hope of his mother, his grand- father, and his uncles that he may Anma day

play for Etou-to which he is going on-nt Lord's.

The

The small daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York, living as they do close to the Palace, have a much larger share in the family fo of the King and Queen. Princess Elizabeth will always have her own special place in the hearts of her grandparents, for she was their

furnish whole

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example of a family seat. People who have seen the uligulfed state reception rooms with their magnificent scarict and gold decorn. long, their priceless hangings, and their lovely pieces of furniture, would probably be surprised at the in those parts of palace and castle simple, homely comfort that obtains regarded us the personal apart. ments of Their Majesties,

The Queen's bedroom furnished so comfortably that she can use it, also as a sitting-room if she feels. su disposed,

la

A famous portrait painter, who was commissioned to paint the Queen's picture tokd, when the sit- tings were over, how he was received by Her Majesty in the simplest possible way and how he chatted with her in her own. altting-room 'on questions of pose and so on. When the subject of dress came up, the Queen said quite simply: "In what gown would you like to paint me? What colour would you suggest?

A group of members of the Royal House taken on the acession of the christening of Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York.

excited whisper from Elizabeth-light her, and she has a wonderful | Let us go and see some of my "curacy to Granny-you know array of these, and an equally things." you have to."

of small attractive collection Princess Margaret's face was a flower pictures. study mixture of relief and All the Georgian and Stuart mischievous amusement. "Is that relica make a great appeal to her. She treasures everything connect- ed. with Queen Elizabeth, as well as all kinds of personal treasures associated with Mary Queen of Scots.

all?" she seemed to be thinking.

Then, catching her skirts in her chubby hands, she made a very creditable curtacy, and immediate ly afterwards flung her arms round the Queen's neck and gave, her a resounding kiss.

AT HOME

The royal collections of china are famous, These, of course, were got together before the present reign, but Her Majesty has

way Leading the.

the Queen room, accompanied him to her where a dresser was laying out half a dozen dresses. They talked over firat one and then another, and a decision was eventually come to. But the thing which impressed the painter was the lack of fuss and ceremony.

"I was in the private rooms of the Palace," he said, "and the Queen received me as any Indy would in her own home. There

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particular care during the mont The King enjoys his little always watched over them, adding was no ceremony, and I have never fascinating months of her life, granddaughters most when he can a plece here and there as she has felt more at ease with anyone whom when her father and mother were making

have them in the garden at come across it. It is Raid that I was going to paint." their long tour of Austraila Buckingham Palace to himself. there are some sets of china which New Zealand. But her small On summer days their afternoon she dusts herself when they need sister,

Prinocas Margaret. is rest is postponed for half an hourit, the key's of the cases in which. With every perfect home there equally beloved, especially by the or so, and, drossed in simple they are kept being always in her goes a garden and, long before King. She is a perfect foil to her frocks and shady hats if the personal possession.

gardening became a fashionable slator, content to smile happily in the background while Elizabeth, with her greater assurance, chatters away, always contented, revealing many little charming ways which remind an older generation of the Duchess of York's childhood.

MARGARET'S MENTOR Princess Elizabeth adores her

little Princesses.

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sun is strong-they are taken to The Queen's enthusiasm for her hobby. for women, the Queen was the Palace for a real romp out of various collections has, naturally, sharing the interest of the King doors while the King and Queen spread far and wide, and has in the trees, flower beds, and shrub. have their coffee. This is fre- brought her into touch with a beries of their residences. People quently served in the garden great many business men control-who attend the royal garden party when the weather is favourable,ing antique furniture firms. To at Buckingham Palace are always and a special bonbon box has a them her knowledge of her surprised, on their first visit, nt place on the coffee table for the particular fancies has often been the ulter simplicity of the grounds. surprising, and they have dis-They are in keeping with the home- Ten-tima is probably the most covered immediately upon boingness and charm of the private little sister, and adopts a most homely hour of all with the King presented to her that her hobby apartments, and it is quite obvious protective air towards her. When and Queen. No matter what their means a good deal more to her that they have been laid out for use she was still very tiny and had not engagements, they try to make a than the assembling of as many and plenaure and not for show. altogether grasped the importance point of returning to the Palace pieces as possible. Her Majesty Roses are everywhere. The of the deference due to the Queen at five o'clock in the afternoon. knows exactly what to look for miniature polyanthus

public, both little girls were This is why royal matinee pro- she has studied the history of the evidently a favourite of the King taken by their wise Nanny, Mrs. grammes are invariably timed to furniture, china, glass, and other and Queen, for it blooms in nearly Knight, to an exhibition to receive finish a little hefore that hour, bric-a-brac in which sho ds all the beds. Plants of the old- some gifts which had been made thus allowing Their Balesties a interested, with the result that her fashioned cherry piensasiat for them by ex-Service men. It few minutes to get into their car collections are not only of great delightful scent, are was belug held at private and, be driven home. Here they value but of intense interest to kept in countenance by a multitude house, and while the children may find the Princess Royal wat the connoisseur.

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a perfect curtsoy Princesses, will make up the generations who have get great Nor are there masses of blue here, before kissing her grandmother family party.

stora by home Mfo. When the pink there, and so on. The flowers but little Princess Margaret ran On a priceless old round table King came to the Throne the old which the King and Queen love ar straight into her arms, her tiny, the golden tea-kettle and tea-pot Victorian families wore tremen chosen for the borders, net side by flower-like face held up for her are arranged, with the accompany dous force in Great Britain, and side or distributed here and there kissj

Before the Queen had time Ing cream fug and suger basin, vital movements circled round the as they please, and the effect is respond, Princess Elizabeth dishes of sandwiches, cakes, and potra who believed that their duty rather that of a cottage garden on!

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