TO BE CALLED ANNE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 19

TO BE CALLED ANNE

FIRST GRANDDAUGHTER

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN'S ANXIETY

Berchtesgaden and Birmingham were the two places uppermost in Mrs. Neville Chamberlain's mind when the Prime Minister's airliner was approaching Munich on September 15, states Marianne Mayfayre in the London "Daily Telegraph."

During the morning she talked by telephone with her daughter, Mrs. Stephen Lloyd, in Birmingham. The previous Saturday a baby girl was born to this 26-year-old mother, and the Downing Street grandparents were robbed by the international situation of any immediate prospect of seeing their first granddaughter.

Each day, however, Mrs. Chamberlain" rang her daughter from No. 10 Downing Street, and gave her messages from her father.

The baby is to be called Anne—after her grandmother—with the omission of the "i." The Prime Minister invariably calls his wife "Annie," but she is "Anne" to everyone else.

When this new Anne is christened— whether in London or Birmingham is not yet decided—she will probably wear the robe made for Mrs. Lloyd's christening by the Prime Minister's sister, Miss Hilda Chamberlain. It was worn two years ago by the baby's brother Stephen.

The front door of No. 10 Downing Street opened incessantly on September 14 for the stream of letters and telegrams of congratulations and good wishes sent both to the Prime Minister and Mrs. Chamberlain.

Gifts of white heather arrived for Mrs. Chamberlain from well-wishers. The heather filled vases in her own sitting-room, where she arranged it effectively against the green colour scheme.