WILL RISK THE BOMBS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 9

WILL RISK THE BOMBS

PRINCESS LOUISE’S DECISION WILL NOT LEAVE LONDON LONDON, October 10 Alone in her ninety-eight-roomed home in Kensington Palace sits Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, eldest living child of Queen Victoria. Although she is now in her ninetysecond year, she has decided that she will not leave London even if bombs rain on the city, says the Sunday Express. The Princess remains alone with her old servants, visited only by a few of her closest friends. Her household is administered with the utmost simplicity; many of the rooms have been closed and draped in dust sheets for economy. Around her are the pictures she has painted, the sculptures she has modelled, the furniture which Queen Victoria chose for her nearly fifty years ago. There is no array of sandbags and no gummed paper on the windows at Kensington Palace. Dark blue blinds used during the last war have been put up for the black-out. The “ shelter ” is a long underground tunnel near the kitchens. The Princess insists on one air raid precaution—as soon as a warning : s given a member of her household goes out into the road which runs by the Princess’ front door and turns off the Palace gas supply.