How Dorothy Drew saw the Queen.

Manawatu Herald, 18 May 1899, Page 3

How Dorothy Drew saw the Queen.

This world renowned nine.year-old granddaughter of Mr Gladstone is the subjpct of a most interesting sketch in the March " Young Woman." It is full of droll anec dotes. Her visit to the Queen at Windsor just before the Diamond Jubilee day is narrated, partly in the words of the little woman herself : — Dorothy relates how she went down the very long corridor to put on her new white frock and her silk gloves, and bow a grand servant all dressed in red came to say that the Queen was waiting. •• The Indian man whom the Qaeen likes very much " wa9 at the door, and the next moment Dorothy stoo3 before the great Qaeen whom her " grandpapa" had served for sixty years But Dorothy thought nothing of the vastness of the empire, of the record reign which all the world was cele ■- brating. It was nothing to her that the kindly grey-haired lady before her was mistress of one quarter of the whole human race. To Dorothy she was just another woman like grandmamma, with a white cap on her head ; and Dorothy curtseyed, and kissed her, and told her her name was " Dome," that she called Mr Gladstone " grandpapa " that they all had pet nam^s at the Castle, and so on and so on ; and many in tereating pet names were revealed on both sides. " The Q jeen put on her glasses and asked me to go to the other side of the room, so that she could see me better," Dorothy ex« plains, " and then she took a little jewel-case and Baid, * This is for you.' I opened it and saw a darling little brooch, with a diamond V and a diamond B and a turquioso I, and a little crown at the top made of red enaraeL I curtseyed and kissed her hand, and said, • Thank you very much.' Bhe looked very nice and kind, and I liked her very much." Then the Queen kissed the little debutante again, and Dorothy and her mother returned to town.