LITTLE PRINCESS MARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 3

LITTLE PRINCESS MARY.

. Although Princess Mary, the only daughter, of our new King and Queen, has had a far more liberal up-bringing than had children of the Koyal Family during the Victorian era, still her education has been conducted on- fairly Btrict lines. Until she was four years old she did pretty well as she pleased, but after that she entered the schoolroom under the care of a govumess. By the time she reached five the littlo Princess was able to read and write and also developed a taste for drawing, lvhifch has since been carefully, cultivated. At soven her education was in the hands of two governesses, besides masters for drawing and music. Since then Mr. Hansell, formerly tutor to Prince Arthur of Connaught, has superintended the Royal schoolroom. Her daily routine begins at half-past 6 iu the morning in summer and 7 hi winter, she studying for an hour before breakfast, after wbich comes tliree hours' lesson work. At noon she is taken for a drive or walk, ana in the afternoon there are lessons in languages, music, and drawing. She is a daring littlo horsewoman, and. quite lately achieved a long-cherished ambition by attending her first meet of foxhounds, from which she returned with the brush hanging by her saddle. She has already on several occasions been a hostess, her maiden appearance as such occurring on her- eighth birthday, when she gave a party in the beautiful draw-ing-room of Queen Alexandra's private apartments. The invitations were written and issued by the small Princess herself, she receiving some 20 juvenileguests. -

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