SLAPPED BY QUEEN
VICTORIA’S ROYAL WRATH. LONDON, September 29. “I. am proud of being the only person whom Queen Victoria ever slapped,” declared Colonel It. E. Crompton, foun. der of the Itoyal Automobile Club, and twice president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, at a dinner in his honour by the electrical industry at the Savoy Hotel. “I introduced electric light to Windsor Castle in 1881. Her Majesty did not like it, and told me to remove the installation. I suggested that she wait and see, but she promptly slapped my face. When others admired the lighting, she relented. “Someone wanted to introduce me later, but the Queen waved him aside, saying ‘That young man had the impudence to insist on his own way, which happened to be right!’”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1931, Page 6
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