QUEEN MARY TODAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 18

QUEEN MARY TODAY

A PLEASANT LIFE

A very charming account of Queen Mary ana her doings appears in "The Queen." The writer states that, after a long life of official entertaining when programmes were arranged down to the very last detail by the Master of the Household, she is free to give the kind of luncheon and dinner that she likes, in a home that is her own personal affair rather than a Royal residence, and.with the dishes and flowers that she chooses herself.

A luncheon party mentioned on a glorious sunny spring Sunday was delightful with many daffodils and pink and yellow tulips everywhere. On the tables were tulips of a deeper tone and soft green foliage. A dinner party recently was equally1 charmingly arranged. Her Majesty had evidently reviewed the autumn-tinted flowers, and her choice had fallen on the delicate tawny chrysanthemums in the drawing-room, while on the dinner table she had hedgerow berries in brilliant tones and roses a shade palei to go with-them. It was a very artistic conception.. Queen Mary has been paying a number of visits, more'or less informally, and altogether having a restful and pleasant time; ■

The same writer states that while the entertainments given by King George and Queen Elizabeth have the old Royal dignity,, their Majesties are youlfe in thought, and their retinue is composed'of young people, and there seems to-be no weight on their spirits nowadays.' At the Court of King George V and Queen Mary there was always perfect harmony and a very charming atmosphere, -no matter what the occasion. At that,of their son and their Scottish daughter-in-law there is similar harmony allied to the vivacity of the younger generation.