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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

It is being whispered in Court circles that Queen Mary hopes, when holiday festivities are over, to persuade the widowed Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians to pay her a visit at Marlborough House, and to bring the' little Princess Josephine with her. People who know them both say that, although they are much of an age, Princess Josephine is more advanced in her outlook than Princess Elizabeth of York. Our own little Princess had led so sheltered a life that this is only to bo expected. Princess Josephine shoulderod without any outside suggestion the burden of trying to make life more bearable for her father, King Leopold, after the tragic death of her mother, Queen Astrid, and rather pathetically she has been his constant companion ever since. She has a childish idea, too, that she must always practise that thoughtfulness for others which made her mother so beloved, and this has given the Belgian people ground for calling her among themselves, “ a second Astrid.”