THE QUEEN

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

THE QUEEN

WHAT WE OWE HER A well-known writer, speaking of Queen Mary, says: .'“The British people love her and honour her as the pattern cf the good mother and the good grandmother. There is no sycophancy in their appreciation of her motherliness which links her with them in their deepest experience of life. She has made motherhood the brightest' jewel in her crown.

The reign of King George and Queen Mary will be honoured in history as a good reign, and the good Queen Mary will go down through our annals in- ' dicsolubly associated with the . good King George. Historians will acclaim the reign of George and Mary as one of the greatest and noblest in all the chronicles of kingship and queenship. Whatever record leaps to light they never shall be shamed.

This is not the language of adulation. It is a plain statement of the truth. Many of our queens have failed to imprint their character on their time. In the twilight of the past they are shadows. Their names are forgotten. Queen Mary will not be forgotten. She will be remembered as the ipitomo of womanhood in the ago that wrought the liberation of womanhood by the bestowal of full citizenship. Queen Mnfy’s conception of queenship as the partner of kingship is womanly to the core. She has played the good woman’s part in the life of the nation as vigorously as the King has played the good man’s part. The whole people have felt the good woman’s touch in her sympathies and her. interests. She has made no mis takes of taste or judgment. Her reigr, has been without a blemish of a flaw.