QUEEN’S KINDLY ACT
Visits Bedridden Woman “Well, you, see, I’ve come.” “Yes, thank you, your Majesty.” The speakers were the Queen of England and a sixty-five-year-old bedridden woman, Mrs. Nelly Ballard, at 'Warkworth House Institution, says a London newspaper. The Queen had just paid a visit to the West Middlesex Hospital, and on leaving, walked to the Warkworth House Institution next door, and asked to see Mrs. Ballard. The Queen's request took the officials and staff by surprise. She was taken upstairs to Mrs. Ballard’s ward and remained for several minutes chatting with the bedridden woman. She then asked to be taken to other wards, where she conversed with other inmates. The visit was in answer to a letter Mrs. Ballard had written two or three days previously, asking the Queen to conie and see her. Mrs. Ballard received a reply stating that the Queen would come when her engagements permitted. It was the bedridden woman’s greatest surprise to have her wish gratified so soon.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 14
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