Queen’s Anxiety About Children

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 2

Queen’s Anxiety About Children

(New Zealand Press Association)

BLENHEIM, February 14.

At the back of the Queen’s mind are constant thoughts for her three children. She is worried that her youngest, Prince Andrew, who will be three on Tuesday, may forget her while she is on the present tour.

She conveyed these thoughts to the Mayoress of Blenheim, Mrs S. P. Harling, during the visit of the Royal couple to Marlborough yesterday. Whenever she can, the Queen speaks with the children by radio-telephone from the Royal yacht Britannia, The Queen told Mrs Harling that after she and her husband bad left Britain, Prince Andrew had for several days kept asking to visit

“Mummy.” Later he had got used to the idea that his parents would be away for some time, but now he was asking when “Mummy” would be back.

The Queen was a sparkling conversationalist at the luncheon, Mrs Harling said. The Mayor had asked whether a grass skirt he had obtained in the islands would be suitable wear for an elephant race being promoted by a visiting circus next week. The Queen had advised him against this. An elephant's skin was like sandpaper, she said. Other subjects discussed ranged from the merits of small cars to ski-ing.