PLANNING THE NURSERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 11

PLANNING THE NURSERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose are children with ideas. When, after their recent visit to arrange about alterations to Buckingham Palace, their Majesties fold their daughters what decorations and furniture had been chosen for the nursery suite on the second floor, there was a storm of protest. Princess Elizabeth agreed that she would love primrose-coloured walls and curtains of primrose chintz printed with tiny pale pink moss roses for the five rooins next to her mother 's apartments, but she immediately vetoed tho coloured nursery furniture. iSLe want Victorian furniture, small, as it was made for children of that dkiy, but of brightly polished dark bfowu vfood that will contrast well witi the pale walls. Both children have asked for dark oak chests in which to keep their treasured possessions, in preference to modern c-upboards, and they also want bookcases that cau be added to as their librarios inerease, all with glass doors, of conroe. Princess Elirauetj! has asLtfl to have one c rner oi' lier own sitting-room turutd into a miniature kitehen with tited walls and electric cooker, so that she can really Irarn the euiinary arts. She wants :t complete with fry-pans, aluminium saueepans, a mincing machine, a patent juiee extractor, and an electric iron. For the p'resent the two little girls are to tshare the same niglit nursery. They will probably have coverlets and siderdowns to match their curtains, and primrose and leaf-green . rugs on> the polished floor. In the day nursery they will have an old -fashioned coal fire, but in Princess Elizabeth 's own sitting-room she is to have an electric radiator as well a'3 a spceial reading-lamp for her desk,They have also asked for fitted workboxes to match their furniture, as both are fond of emhroidery and knitting, and their infrequent . quarrels nstially arise because one has been trying to do the other's sewing or knitting. Princess Elizabeth sometime complains that "Margaret Rose makes such a mess."-