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Dunstan Times, Issue 3147, 11 December 1922, Page 8

(,)i)eon Alexandra figures as a combination of magician and good laiiv in a story told by Fail'd Ernest Hamilton in “Forty Years On.” a volume <d reminiscences just issued. In 15(57 Queen Alexandra, then Princess of Wales - , visited laird Ernest’s father, the first Duke of Abercorn, at Diib-

Ij ll Castle, and won all hearts— “among them, that of an insignificant but addling boy of eight and a half.” He continues “My small. and probably dirty, bands were at that time badh disfigured by a inimher of warts. . . . H.K.H. took the most solicitous interest in my complaint, and examined my repulsive little hands with the tenderst care. After listening to a recital of my woes she promised that sac would charm them away for me. A certain rite was gone through, to the lies! of my recollection with hazel twigs, and. be that as it may. the fact remains that from that day my warts began to disappear, and have never shown any tendency to return. . . . When, some 1 I years later, the I’rincc and Princess of Wales came to stay with my father. li.lt.H. gracionsh shook bands with me. and then, retaining my band, said: ‘Hut where arc the warts?’ I explained that her magic bad effected a permanent core, at which she was greatly pleased.”