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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

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rible 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 grown suddenly lonely and old

for her fifty-eight years.

That was two years ago. She went to where her hus- est decision of her life. Should band's body lay. There were she stand by her husband in his three officers on guard in the determination to resist the Ger- room and two nuns praying. man invasion or use her in- fluence to secure passive neu- trality?

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1936.

BRITISH COLONIES'

"Fight," she said at once. "If I could, I would open my veins and drain out every drop of Bavarian blood,"

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 Lacken, on the outskirts of Brussels, and was inconsolable.

The vivacious, merry, brilliant IN the night train that carried Queen who was constantly en Brussels so full of memories, the her north from Naples to the riching her circle of friends was Queen Mother know quite well no more. Instead was a heart the great task that faced her, of broken Queen-Mother, with no comforting her son in his great Interest in life, shunning all grief, forgetting her own for society.

Soldiers stood at the castle children. Know this, and faced his, mothering his motherless entrance, but no visitors came it unfaltering. or went. Except for her son,

fow

King Leopold, and his wife, she went straight to the palace When she arrived in Brussels, Queen Astrid, and privileged people, no one was. of Lacken--the palace where admitted.

she had nearly died in her own HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL three little children. They had sorrow and took charge of the 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 books

and papers, as if awaiting the WHEN THEIR TEARS CEASED royal signature: his clothes Only two of them-Josephine, hanging as he left them.

aged nine, and Baudouin, aged

and under the strain of her they had been told. The baby, She was never very strong, five-could understand what 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. last, perhaps only just in The Queen-Mother went down time, when she weighed only to the nursery, and when she six stone, her doctors inter- left the tears had ceased. vened.

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 urged her to go away, to leave the scene of her sor they tiptoed back. *

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. A former Governor of Hong-to see. She was the best-dressed example to

she mirrored it for all the world for "her gallantry and noble her people and kong, Baron Lugard, has, we queen in Europe, the most

army." observe, intervened in the dis-versatile, the most accomplished She renounced all rights of

in all the arts. She

studied her birth, all contact with her

FUTURE

August, 1935.

The Queen Mother was sitting

She came back to her son, who was distraught with grief, and, after a talk with him, decided to take over the care of her grandchildren.

The children were placed in the hands of governesses and nurses, but the Queen-Mother decided to be with them and to try to give them something of

Jeussion which has arisen at medicine, and took her M.D. de. native people, for her husband. with her daughter in the beaut the care and intense affection

Home regarding the proposal

Villa Rosebery, outside mother.

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HER GREATEST DECISION

the

QUEEN

that Britain should make some played the violin exquisitely. fore a reconciliation was effected sort of territorial or commercial She was afraid of nothing.

She was absolutely carefree, between her and her Bavarian Naples,

relations,

They know nothing of that redistribution of colonies,

All through the years, wher- terrible car crash by the placld Qu ELIZABETH cast. pecially those in Africa. No-one

ever she went she radiated her shores of Lake Lucerne, where aside her own grief and She was a Bavarian princess happiness. She took all that death had come suddenly to her lavished her care and attention is more qualified to express by birth, and on the outbreak of life had to offer, and was brave son's wife, the beautiful Queen on her three motherless grand-

war she had to make the great to the point of recklessness. Astrid. views on this matter, since Lord Lugard spent a great deal of his

life in the service of the Empire NOTES OF THE DAY

children. She returned to the

possible solution, is a return to /tempt to remove at least some few she said once,, "unless it is a Astrid to the Chateau Ciergnon, afternoon she often assists ht

morning.

She was the one who brought their lessons, and shows the these two charming young

people together and who brought keenest interest in any progress that February about a true love match. She they make in the many subjects

enjoyed the greatest intimacy they are studying."

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

The chief tutoress is the Com- Lesse Della Saille, in whom Queen Elizabeth has the greatest confidence, and who is in supreme charge of those who instruct the children.

Once in a tour of 'America she Captain Turinette, aide-de supremo service she had shown was shown & mountain lion in a camp to the Prince of Piedmont, to the world while her husband cage in California.

was announced and stood awk was alive. - on that continent, and knows the

She stroked it through the wardly before them. When he

The strains of har violin were people and their outlook in-

bars; then, before any one spoke it was in a slow and thick-

heard again in the castic-for the first time in nearly two years. timately. If there should be HOPE FOR THE REFUGEES

could stop her, opened the ened voice.

The anxious courtiers heard her eny transference of mandates,

door and stepped into the A motor accident...Leopold The ratification by Denmark of

laughter mingling with that of he lays it down as an absolute the International Convention on enge.

injured Astrid

the children's-and rejoiced. condition that there should be the Status of Refugees, recently snarled and snapped; was any was

The lion showed temper, The death of Queen Astrid Her health improved. She announced, will bring a little

particularly painful to gained weight. Her doctors, the willing consent, or the com-much-needed encouragement. The thing but the docile animal it 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. she who had chosen Astrid as a the early part of the winter in majority of the populations af- hundreds of thousands of refugees Quickly, but calmly, the wife for her son, as an incom- Belgium. fected. He is convinced, how-worne to-day than it has ever been. the door. Then she laughed HELPED TRUE LOVE MATCH the nursery for their breakfast, scattered over the world is perhaps Queen stepped backwards, out of parable mate in her opinion. Nearly every morning Queen Elizabeth joins the children in ever, that the result in the Not only is their economic position heartily at the frightened escort British mandated

territories not improving, it is actually steadily who had rushed to assist her, facilitated their union, who had mitted to her bed-chamber.

She was the one who and they are the first ones ad- would be an emphatic desire for deteriorating under the stress of and at the gentle chiding of the

economic nationaliam in almost King. no change. One point which every

taken her son to his bride's country, The Convention

HEARS THEIR PRAYERS Lord Lugard puts forward, as a

was drawn up in 1933, in an at-)

"The crown has no meaning," Scandinavian home, and who

had welcomed the Princess hears their prayers, In the She also sees them to bed and

the "Open Door" policy in, the which refugees suffer. It provides

of the chief disabilities under symbol of service."

African territories this, of that states shall issue certificates course, provided other Colonial lieu of passports to refugees THEN came Powers were prepared to bear not expel refugees except for rea- residing in their territories; shall

their share in the collective sons of national security or public effort. Answering the plea of order; shall allow them certain over-crowding and the need of status, and shall not apply against rights in respect of their legal other nations for room to ex-them in all their severity inws etc. pand, Lord Lugard mentions that national labour markets; while in enacted for the protection 'of England has a population more the cases of certain categories of than double the density par 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 a good deal-although still not this pertinent question: "Has nearly as much as is needed-to every nation which is sufficientlywretched category of human beings, alleviate the lot of this most insistent and has taken stops 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, severe. Unhappily, only three and as a field for economic ex-Denmark making the fourth. The countries have hitherto ratified, pansion, regardless of whether matter is particularly urgent in the territory already has a view of the proposals recently made, population of its own?"

and now before the League of In this Nationa

to liquidate all the connection, the point cannot be League's work for refugees, except overlooked that this claim for the single favoured category of re- Colonies is not based on any One of the recommendations made fugees coming from Germany. known desire on the part of the by the Committee putting forward territories already controlled by these proposals is that the 1933 Britain for a change of ruler fed. If it comes into force in all Convention should be widely rati- ship. Indeed, as Lord Lugard countries then the effect of the avers, there is every ground for liquidation of Nansen's work will boljoving that the people of these trembles to think of what the years. at least be mitigated; otherwise one territories are quite satisfied hold in store both for the existing with the privileges and liberties refugees and the large numbers of which they enjoy under the new refugees certain to be created Union Jack Britain has certain-

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ly in no wise betrayed her trust. There may conceivably be room categorically stated that it is not economic readjustments, considering handing over Brush provided the movement is made

Colonies or mandated territories of general colonial an piyanto, any foreign:Rower, nor is it, application, emtemplating any barter ot "but the British Government as 'territories whatever.

"If I wait for him to succeed he might get

marry him now, he might turn out to

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.

."

- Sho insisted on returning to Brussels for Christmas Eve to celebrato Christmas with her grandchildren. There was JOL great Christmas-tree, around which the children gathered 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 long and serious conversation until the time to retira

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, excopting the most intimate friends.

She lives only for her son and for her grandchildren, end her unique desire is to be the per mother and grandmother.