PERSONALITY IN A ROOM QUEEN MARY’S BOUDOIR.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 5

PERSONALITY IN A ROOM QUEEN MARY’S BOUDOIR.

Nothing gives a truer idea of a woman’s character than the room in which many of her working and leisure hours arc spent. And among the upper classes and especially amongst royalty it is the boudoir which most truly interprets the owner’s personality (states a writer in an exchange). ■ AVhen one enters Queen Alary s boudoir at Buckingham Palace, one seems to leave the world outside. There is something so restful about it, so like its royal owner. The colour scheme of the boudoir is blue and cream, the walls being panelled in soft powder-blue with a satin stripe. The big -window, as in so many oldfashioned London houses, is rather ugly, but Her Alujcsty has overcome this difficulty by having outer curtains reaching to the ground with a perfectly plain pelmet,' both composed of soft blue moire silk, and inner curtains of very fine cream net which give the room a fairylike and charming appearance. If one is privileged to enter Queen Alary’s. boudoir, one cannot help noticing at once the cabinets of antiques and china which are the great feature of the room.

The Queen's writing-desk, which is of cream and gold lacquer and which was especially designed and painted for her by ex-servicemen, stands in front of- the window.

In a Press Association cable message from London the death is announced of Miss Eva Alunro, at the age of 28. New Zealanders visiting London will remember her in charge of the mails at New Zealand House. She complained of head pains on December 27, went home, and died of meningitis two days later.