ROYAL SPRING CLEANING

Shannon News, 31 December 1929, Page 4

ROYAL SPRING CLEANING

The Queen has been doing a good deal of work during the ostensibly quiet time she has been spending wit>i the King for the last month or so writes a London correspondent. -When [■heir Majesties came to the throne the Uoyal Palnces were over loaded with collections' of furniture, pictures, and irnanionts, most of them priceless, but all mixed together quite haphazard I v There had been little. :u tempt at creat 'ng order out of this chaos for the last "wo reigns, but the. Queen determined Ko restore harmony. All through her >vign she has worked hard to achieve this, end, and now at last sueccs? is ciowning her efforts.

Buckingham Palace has become the home of the more modern possessions, while at Windsor, an eighteenth century atmosphere has been created. The Queen has chosen rosewood for her private sitting-room, in. which blue is the. predominating colour' note. and mahogany furniture is a feature o'* the bow-room, where • the Royal family have their meals. The Queen do'cs nor, merely direct the disposal of her iron-, sures; she does a good deal of work hcrse'f. At Holyrood she once rolled up her sleeves and attacked a packing case with vigour, and the story is also told of a famous statesman who went to Buckingham Palace in obedience to a command and found the Queen standing on top of a ladder, hanging old prints. '