A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

SOCIETY IN OVERALLS.

« MUSIC AND POLITICS.

roru Our London Lady' Correspondent!'

The Queen has always been very* proud of little Princess- Elizabeth's likeness to her. Her eyes- and colouring- are almost identical with the Queen's and Princess Mary's, and I hear that the last batch of photographs of the baby Princess— especially the one with the basket work doll's pram, which has been published far and wide—has brought out the likeness more . noticeably than even. Her Majesty was charmed when she saw these pictures, and immediately, ex-j claimed: "How like me she is I" t Princess Elizabeth is not too fond of this photo-j graphing business. Once or twice when) studio portraits of her were wanted for special occasions, she was frankly rebellious, and showed' very plainly that 6he did hot approve of posing. When she sees a snapshot camera being, pointed at her she always tries to run away, unless the owner should be the Prince of Wales, for whom she is always ■ willing to stand. - But in spite of her dislike of the "camerda" the Duchess has been able to secure a very charming collection of' pictures of her small daughter. < -<• Hats OS in the House. > j Mrs. Walter Runciman, the fhember for St. Ives, has „ joined the hatless brigade among the women -members of the House of Commons. Miss Ellen Wilkinson has hardly 'ever worn heir hat in the House. Looking down from the Strangers' Gallery, her mop of reddishbrown hair is almost the first thing that catches the eye. Miss Bondfield and Miss Susan Lawrence, the- other Labour women, fallowed her example, and if j they arrive with headgear ,very speedily discard; ifcj . So, far Lady Iveagh has never heen : seen without a hat, but the Duchess of Atholl never wears one. Lady -Aster. wears her neat little black or navy felt very religiously, -but once or twice lately, when "she has stayed through a-late sitting she .haa. taken it off and' nursed it on her knee. Airs. Hilton Philipson, too, makes a rule of wearing a hat, but on perhaps half a dozen occasions when she has been in .tiie House after dinner, members have seen her -without on*.

. 4 Politics and Sorties. • One oomes across Lady Joynson-Hicks, the wife at the Home at a great many afternoon parties. Ueually she,'has her very charming, unaffected daughter, Griselda, with her, and neither of them appears to allow the thought of week-end entertaining duties to interfere with tlieir social activities in town, life at !Newick Place, where the Home Secretwy'a gueqta have met ao. often to distuisa important affairs', of home govcrpment, flows .very smoothly j daring thsee -, Saturday-to- Monday parties—so far aa the domestic aide is concerned. IJoynsou-Hkks is a capable as well as a channing hostess. She has a sense of humorur, takes an intelligent interest in what is gdohg on, and is the most aympathetie listener. Her parties at her London house in Queen's Gate are always a great sueoess, too. .

QusenAdelaide's Vril.

The new Lady Monster, who until this wedt waa Miss Hilary Wilson of the hig. aorth of, £ngland shipping family, made a very beautiful bride at St« Marganfa, Wcatminstier, the most beautiful of the year, She looked as though she might have stepped out of the .gilded frame of a family portrait aa ahe stood for a mometnt or two in v porch while her veil and train were Her cheeks were aoftly flashed, little tendrils of hair curled fiom under her lace veil, and ahe seemed Supremely happy. Her veil, by the way, once bekaged to Queen Adelaide, and -has been handed down fn.the Munster family for generatians. It was its parchment tint, and the deep tone of the satin used for the bridal gown-worn with it, whicb gave the pktm'iabte tb'thS' happy little bride. She added a modern tendi, how•tor, by wearing a silver bow over 'hei left ear, the remainder of her bridal wreath being of orange buds and myrtle ham One of the smartest wedding eoagregatieoa of the year, representative ofYorkahireaad oflreland,gathered to •' toe her married, iv,..; tr.'.-r r.-. " H" ■ A TTsniraaes ffei-auiasa t . Xadty Chesterfield, who esaie up to li|§a}:,to\tihe wedding idt x her niece Pay; will bo staying in London for a little while before ahe and Lord

Chesterfield go to Beningborongh Bali, their Yorkshire ho—Lord and Lady Chesterfield are racing and hunting her sflvsr wadding anniversary a Utile while MO, Lady CLesterfleld hosts three or mr d*ys a week all through the winter, - jVosDywitk the wail-known York and llmljr pack.' ft b t great grieftoher if she ie kept sway from a north eountry Mi metfav. She is seen, too, at most e# tie classic meetings in the south, and she' Is rerywell informed in thd matter of raoehorses. Bar mother, Florence Lady Nunburnhohne, is a woman owner, and Lady Chesterfield take* a keen in-? tecest in her horses, and also helps her to entertain large racing house parties at Water Pr!ory,theold Nunburnholme hone in Y<wkshire,where PrtncessMary end Lord Lascelles sometimes stay. '' litunstjn Although it has been expected by his intimate friends for a little while, the announcement of the enzasement of Jjng Lord Bective t& Lady (Rupert) Oerke has given the smart luncheon ® interesting topic of conversaHe has been a rotnantic figure to «««y girls for several seasons because a* eaeeo to make a career for himself eewworeoverallg in an electrical feer***. When ids sister, Mdy Mithent Taylour, came out two escort her ~ Safeepetfdetton £ ■*&]& £*** * » wife, and Lady Maadfort, his mother, has had a ebbd plays golf a good deal with A. Popular Srideeataid. Lady Beaoebamp, who already Iras two daughters out-Lady Lettiee AA d » pwttgt dark girfc sad * great pal <W her brother, Lord Fimliy, who hee political ambitianfc Lodjr Lattice LygM, who shares with young Lady JCnbanholme the distinction efhetag the tallest |fe girll in society, i*the popular Wrldes- ■ •. of covn%'at ■ tfe» number of brides sie has attended ■ W owt, and of the timed in ■ yswh she has brought up the rear in * I .s*u^r ß , £?.