QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 19, 2 August 1901, Page 3

QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

—. —. _$, _ Miss Beerbohm contributes to Cas- ! sell's Magazine an illustrated article i upon Queen Alexandra and her wedding, entitled " A Sea King's daughter." Here is a domestic picture of the Queen ConsortI.— In private life ths Queen is full of ivivai-ity. which appears wholly foreign jn her to those who have only seen her in public, at which time her salutations have a certain reserve of their own. She can talk and laugh gaily enough, and takes an interest in all that goes forward. Jter Majesty does not easily make friends, but when she does bestow "her iriend;;aip it is worth having, for she is tbfe ! raost sincere ef women. Her love for her ofm family is deep beyond words ; to tell 'Not-a day passed brft what tins kite . Queen Louate of Denmark received a letter from 'her daughter, with am. ! account of it^r doings-end fond enquiries for the ih-,n.v ones " alt home." . Sometimes 'her If^ors were . under difficulties, when the stress of engagements during tht- London season pressed heavily upon her, ;and she would often sit up till one or two'o'clock - in the morning to finish lieT labour of - love. As a moth;*r -the !Q'ac-sn is .per- ., leciion^ the -Prince Edward of Ifork *■ c»n testify that a sweater.grandiiio'hpT 3 dr>f"» not exist, although whe-B the l>uchess of ■"•Deck to«& sttS ?alive *tTvae . said in the York nurseries thtft ":GranIBy Tcck " always Bpoiltthe IHtls te\Pillow, whereas '■ Granny Wa*.9s''iiever .'ldid.