Some time ago Quoon "Victoria of Spain, accompanied by one of her cousins', was paying an informal call, when the four-year-old son of her hostess expressed his dissatisfaction that the Princesses did not wear their crowns. Crowns, so the child evidently thought, were part of the ordinary apparel of Koyal personages, and, in bis disappointment at not seeing those of his mother’s visitors, he inquired whetfe they were. “ Oh, said the Queen reassuringly, “we have our crowns all right, but wo wear them imrW nnr hats ! ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1817, 25 July 1906, Page 3
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