Evening star. [volume], December 14, 1936, Page A-12, Image 12

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Duties as Wife and Mother
First Consideration of Queen
Personal Friends to Have Same Web
come at Buckingham Palace They
Enjoyed in Piccadilly.
An Intimate story of the lives
and personalities of the Duke and
Duchess of York, who nous have
ascended the throne of the British
-Empire. is told here in a series of
articles, of which this is the fourth.
BY H. J. J. SARGINT.
LONDON* December 14 (N.A.
NA.l.—As the Duchess of York, the
new Queen’s days were filled with so
cial engagements, some of them bor
ing and irksome to her. but she al
ways carried them out with the
rharmihg and friendly smile which is
famous throughout the British Em
pire.
The new Queen of England, when
•he moves to Buckingham Palace, will
naturally be more aloof from public
gaze than hitherto, as it is only on
Very special occasions that the Queen
of England attends public functions,
but she already has told her personal
friends that she expects to see them
Bt the palace just as frequently as
the did at her former home in Picca
dilly. Chief among these is Mrs.
Ronald Greville, whose country house
the present King and Queen had for
their honeymoon. Mrs. Greville does
a lot of diplomatic and political en
tertaining at both her town and coun
fry houses and is a great favorite of
both the King and Queen, who fre
quently visited her. while she general
ly dropped in at 145 Piccadilly a
couple of times a week to have a chat.
The royal couple, however, are es
sentially home-loving and lead prob
ably the quietest and most domestic
life of any in the country. They very
seldom go out to either private or
restaurant parties and only occasion
ally visit the theater and cinema, and,
when they do so, they appear un
heralded and unannounced.
Friends Assured »\ elromr.
Other friends who had the right of
entry at all times at 145 Piccadilly
are Mr. and Lady Doris Vyner, Lord
and Lady Pembroke and Lord and
Lady Annaly, at whose wedding the
Queen was a bridesmaid: Lady Plunk
et. Lord and Lady Allendale. Sir Phil
lip Sassoon, millionaire undersecretary
for air, and his cousin, Mrs. Gubbay,
who helped the Queen furnish her
Piccadilly home, as she is an enthu
siast over old furniture and old silver.
These friends the royal pair have as
sured a warm welcome whenever they
Visit Buckingham Palace.
But thp new Queen is entirely
wrapped up in her duties as wife and
mother, and these come before every
thing. She has a most ardent admirer
In her husband, for whom she makes
an ideal companion. She accompanies
him whenever possible and looks after
his personal comfort just as any
middle-class wife, and when he is tired
and wants to be alone, she takes care !
that nobody disturbs him in the quiet i
and peaceful atmosphere of his study. I
She always Is extremely considerate 1
to her staff, and frequently, when they j
returned home late at night, they let |
themselves into the house and enjoyed i
a light meal left for them in the j
boudoir, where the duchess would make
coffee in an electric percolator.
The King personally likes nothing
better than to be with his wife and
children, who arp extremely fond of ,
him. for he has the faculty, which is j
Invaluable in a father, of being able j
to enter into their games as sympa
thetically as if he were one of them.
Both the King and his wifp read a
Freat deal of history and biographies
as well as novels, and then the Queen
has been known to reveal an unex
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should not go to school, but should be
educated at home with her younger
sister. Margaret Rose. Their mother,
herself a product of 'home education,
was determined that both girls should
enjoy the same natural freedom of
development that she herself had. She
holds spoiling children to be a crime
and rules hers through kindness and
tact while at the same time demanding
Implicit obedience.
Princess Elisabeth is Inclined to be
self-willed and sometimes has to be
reproved sternly by her mother, but
she never has been slapped in her
life and is a natural and unspoiled
child, extremely popular with every
one with whom she comes in contact.
She adores her sister, an affection
which is returned, so that they are
happiest together and hate being sepa
rated even for a short time.
The Princess Elisabeth seems to
have as remarkable a memory as that
possessed by her father; she never
forgets anything or anybody, and often
recalls a visitor, although she had
met him perhaps a couple of years
before. She Is an apt pupil and seems
to like her lessons, particularly his
tory, geography, music and drawing,
for each of which she has a different
teacher.
The Queen Insists on a regular
routine for the children. Their meals
have to be punctual, for punctuality
Is a law which has ruled the life of
every royal person. A few minutes
delay. In their well-planned day would
result In catastrophe. The school
lessons begin at 9:30 a.m. and con
tinue, with a break for exercise, untH
lunch. The afternoons are devoted
to games, an occasional dancing class,
skating lesson, a visit to the boo or
a drive through Kew Gardens or
through the park or some other ex
cursion-of educational Interest.
The two princesses are especially
fond of visiting the soo, where they
have nursed a baby alligator, talked
to a baby chimpanaee, seen the lions
fed and laughed at the antics of the
penguins. Elisabeth, who has a gen
erous nature, once tried to hand one
of her toys to some child in the street.
She likes playing with other girls
and has many little friends of her
own age whom she delights to enter
tain In the miniature cottage pre
sented to her by the people of Wales.
She and her sister clean and wash
the four-room house themselves and
wash and iron the red-and-white
j checked gingham curtains.
Elisabeth is very fond of animals
and likes skating and swimming. She
has several hobbies, Including garden
ing, knitting andtmaklng cakes, and
has a scrapbook in which she keeps
protographs of various royal relatives
from all over the world.
The children's nursery in their Pic
cadilly home was on the top floor, with
a special elevator to it. The chair*
and other furniture in the nursery are
all of mahogany, the carpet bright
red and the walla golden green, re
lieved by a few pictures. The front
windows give a splendid view of a
corner of Hyde Park, but despite this
there is a tremendous traffic outside
the house. A large garden in the rear
is where Elizabeth and Margaret do
most of their romping and playing,
generally with their pet dogs, Janie,
belonging to Elizabeth, and Dookie to
Margaret.
Elizabeth hats* formality. Once she
committed the crime of falling asleep
during a sermon in Balmoral Church,
and, when reproved by her mother, re
plied: “Well, daddy closed his eyes.”
Elizabeth's ways with some strangers is
sometimes disconcerting, and this is
a matter which has received close at- |
tentlon from her mother. One day a
bishop patted her head and was taken
aback when immediately she lisped.
"I think you’re a strange man.”
The late Lord Buclcmaster loved to
tell a story of how Elizabeth, standing
In front of him at some show, was told
to sit down because he couldn't see.
•’He’s bigger than X am," said the
Princess with an Injured air as she
I resumed her seat.
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