A ROYAL SLAP
what victoria thought abgut electric light. "I am proud of being the only person whom Queen Victoria ever slapped," declared Colonel R. E. Cromp-: ton, founder of the Royal Automobile Club, and twice president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, at a dinner in his honour by the electrical industry at the Savoy Hotel.
1 mtroduced electric light to Windsor Castle in 'l881. 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 he right'!"
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 39, 8 October 1931, Page 4
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