QUEEN MARY
INVOLVED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT CAR OVERTURNED AT PUTNEY. HER MAJESTY NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) , LONDON, May 23. Queen Mary was involved in a motor accident, when the Royal car and a lorry collided at the junction of the Wimbledon Park Road and the West Hill Road, at Putney. A painter placed a ladder against the car and helped the Queen to alight. She was treated in a doctor’s surgery and. after resting in the doctor’s home, returned
home in the 'Royal car, a crowd that gathered cheering. A Marlborough House official states, that he has been informed that the Queen was not hurt. An eye-witness of an accident states that the car overturned completely. The Queen seemed to be badly shaken, but had greatly recovered when driven away. Residents who rushed from their houses saw the Royal car on its side. Another eye-witness said: “The Queen looked very white and shaken, but maintained her composure as she was helped into a doctor’s house nearby. A lady-in-waiting was also shaken. In the meantime, another car was summoned by telephone.” Queen Mary, after her return to Marlborough mouse, retired to her private apartment, and it is understood, was attended by doctors. Others in the overturned car were Lord Claud Hamilton, who sustained cuts on his hand and Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell, who was grazed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1939, Page 5
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