WORE QUEEN’S FROCKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 11

WORE QUEEN’S FROCKS

Some months ago a young Dartmouth cadet was ill, and his parents came to see him, all the way from Norway. They stayed at an ordinary house, and to one of the other visitors the.' extended a cordial invitation to go and be one of their guests. For a time the friend dismissed the possibility from mind, but soou there came a pressing letter from her Dartmouth acquaintances, who were no other than the King and Queen of Norway. She was asked to spend three weeks at their Summer Palace at Jutland. In her excitement she bought a whole trousseau and made great preparations. NO WHITE DRESSES. “But where — where are your white dresses?" queried the lady-in-waiting who unpacked her boxes on her arrival. “Don’t you know that it is etiquette here to wear nothing but white ? Even the men wear white flannels." The English girl was terribly worried. She never wore white and the nearest shops were at Copenhagen Luckily for her the Queen heard of her dilemma. “What nonsense!” exclaimed her Majesty. “How could you spend a lot of money on white dresses for a three-week’s stay? I’ve plenty! You must wear them!” And the visitor found (says the “Weekly Dispatch”) that JJis Queen’s dresses suited her better than '“w own!