WHO WAS QUEEN VICTORIA?
“I was making my bed with cook one day,” writes a Berkshire reader to 'the Morning 'Post, “and, as she had left a big wrinkle in the sheet, I remarked, ‘Mary, you would never have done for Queen Victoria, who. was so particular 'about the making of her bed.’ Cook looked blank, so I added: ‘I mean our Queen Victoria, not Queen Victoria of Spain. I ami speaking of our present King’s (grandmother.’ Cook still looked blank, and explained apologetically, ‘I was never much of a one for history, madam.’ This girl was twen-ty-six, and had tli eusual education. It surprises mb to hear of an English girl who does not even know the name of Queen Victoria '(—monarch whose head is on so .many copper coins still in existence! The war, I fancy, has made a bigger gap in our history than w eare 'inclined to think. Anything ‘before the war’ is now ancient history.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3931, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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160WHO WAS QUEEN VICTORIA? Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3931, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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