CAPTION SCOTT'S MOTHER.
Tile offer of apartments' at Hampton Court- Palace to Mrs. Scott, motlier of the Polar hero, not Lady Scott, as same papers have it, is doubtless due. to tho. King's initiative. It is a written tradition. that these delightful apartments "shall be granted by the grace and farrnir. (if the reigning monarch to tlie widows and children 0 f those who have served their Stivereigii and country with honour and distinction." There are some fifty suites oi apartments at the Pals-ee which have b-efen eec-up-iod in. this manner since the reign of George 111. In addition a dozca suites are inhabited by officials, such as tl»- housekeeper clerk of; works, head' gardener, aiid ' keeper .of the pictures.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 2
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120CAPTION SCOTT'S MOTHER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 2
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