URUGUAY’S BEAUTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 332, 18 April 1928, Page 5

URUGUAY’S BEAUTY

DREAMS COME TRUE I The proudest of all the girls of Uruguay is Senorita Hortensa de Herrera, the beautiful 19-years-old daughter of Dr. Luis Alberto de Herrera, former President of the National Council, who visited London with a special mission frbm Uruguay. With her father and mother she lunched at Buckingham Palace with the King and Queen and the Duke and Duchess of York, and when a “Weekly Dispatch” representative saw her afterwards her dark eyes were dancing with joy. “Oh, it was wonderful,” she cried. “It had been my ambition ever since I was a tiny girl to see the King of England in his splendid palace—and to think that to-day my dream came true! “And how sweet they were to me! We talked about everything—there, as we sat at the table, which was all dazzling with the King’s marvellous gold plate. “We talked, the Duchess and I, about the little Princess Elizabeth. She must love her baby very much, for she said the sweetest things about her. ‘My baby is a real English baby,’ she told me—‘big and bonny, and redcheeked.’ And now I do so want to see the little Elizabeth. “We all talked a lot about the ! Prince of Wales, and the King and i Queen were very interested to hear I about the wonderful impression the Prince had made when he visited I Montevideo. “I mentioned that I danced with the i Prince in Montevideo —a fox-trot it | was. Shall I ever forget it? He is charming. He is such a good dancer.” Seuorita Hortensa confessed that ! when she was last in London she I haunted St. James’s Palace In the | hope, of seeing the Prince, j _ “That was another dream I had.” | she explained, with a gay little laugh, 1 “and now ...at Is soon to come true. ; j We are all geing to St. James’s to visit ‘ 1 him. Isn't tiiat wonderful?”- _