QUEEN MARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 5

QUEEN MARY.

A NEW BIOGRAPHY. ' CHARACTER AND MENTAL ABILITY. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, April 10. An intimate Royal biography of hei Majesty Queen Mary,, by Lady Charlotte Cavendish, reveals the Queens whole life with charming intimacy and tasteful restraint. It describes iiom a new viewpoint the character and mental ability of the most outstanding member of the Royal lfqmily, but as a woman still comparatively unknown and often misunderstood.” It mentions that she inherited a childhood shyness, adding: “Though she has never wholly outgrown tips tendency, it has slowly hardened into a slight reserve that betimes has fallen like a chilly curtain between the British people and their Queen.” « The biography portrays her as a strict hut tender mother, by no means indulgent, but a warm-hearted, sympathetic woman. The Queen, with an inflexible conception of lier duties “lias ; great dignity which has not been known to fail; indeed, she regards her dignity as necessary -to lier position, as her crown to her coronation. She lias no patience with women of rank who forget, what they owe to their position.” Referring to clothes, the authoress says: “The Prince of Wales, much to his mother’s amusement, often begged lier to adopt another style of dressing. Years,ago, when styles which favoured the Queen were the height of the fashion, she decided that they suited her as nothing before, and probably nothing would after. Therefore she decided that they should lie her mode of dress for the rest of her life. When the family changed its name from Guelph to Windsor, the Queen was largely responsible. She once told a friend that Mary Windsor was the nicest name a woman could have.”