THE EXILED QUEEN

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 221, 15 June 1931, Page 4

THE EXILED QUEEN

Describing the arrival of Queen Ena of Spain in Paris, an English writer said Suddenly from the darkness of the stairway leading from the platform came the radiant and gracious figure of Queen Ena in a blue costume, her golden hair gleaming beneath‘a close-fitting hat with a touch of white in it. What had been a sombre scene was changed in a flash, passing from mourning to a welcome warm and heartfelt. It was a triumphant welcome. She moved, a stately, beautiful figure, every inch a Britisli Princess, amid the throng. A man stepped forward and bowed over her hand, which he kissed, and in a great crescendo rose cries of ‘Vive la Reine!’ ” Then I saw that our beautiful British Princess was with difficulty trying to hold back the tears that filled her eyes, but they ran down her cheeks and were eaught by the bouquet of flowers she carried. Ifed aud yellow bouquets, the colours of the Spanish Monarchy, had been handed to her. She moved very slowly amid a most touching scene, and it must be recorded that she bore up pridefully, bravely, and with supreme courage. Behind Queen Ena came her two beautiful daughters, whose pale faces could just be discerned in the crush. Their eyes were filled with tears, too. The scene was historic, and out in the road hundreds cheered and shouted round the cars. The Queen and her daughters were in the first car, and the crowd threw kisses to them,