CHILD PRINCESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 401, 7 April 1937, Page 3

CHILD PRINCESS.

“UTTERLY NATURAL” Portrait Painter’s Impressions. “An utterly natural, affectionate, dainty little girl, with an astonishing sense of humour.” That is how Princess Elizabeth impressed Miss Margaret Lindsay Williams, the famous painter of Royalty, who has just finished a portrait of the Princess and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, for the Queen. In the picture the Princesses are wearing white organdi dresses. Princess Elizabeth, who has her arm around her sister, has a blue sash, and Princess Margaret Rose a pink sash. They are holding primroses. Miss Lindsay Williams, who has painted the portraits of six crowned heads of England, President Harding, of the United States, and many other famous men and women, said the Princesses were the most interesting sitters she had ever had. “They were utterly charming, unsophisticated children, and are amazingly intelligent for their ages,” she told a newspaper representative. “At the same time there is not the slightest suggestion of percocity about them. Mother’s Smile. “Princess Elizabeth has poise, and often reminded me of Queen Mary in little mannerisms. Her smile and voice are her mother’s. Margaret Rose is surprisingly like her sister. “They are most devoted to each other, and sang and told stories while I painted. They are extraordinarily imaginative. Princess Elizabeth would improvise an exciting story about knights and castle and dragons, and Margaret Rose would finish it most convincingly. “Princess Elizabeth took a keen interest in the portrait, and often suggested little alterations in a charming way. She wa snot in the least vain, but generally had a good reason —for instance, she asked me to make the neck of her frock a little lower than it actually was, ‘because mummy likes it that way.’ “Both are full of life and interested in everything. Princess Elizabeth is always looking for a joke, and often started us off into fits of laughter.” Miss Lindsay Williams has found royalty the most punctual and considerate of her sitters.