QUEEN ENA'S MAID.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 16

QUEEN ENA'S MAID.

The Queen of Spain's difficulty in finding a Spanish maid who always speaks English, and who is familiar with English way& and the requirements of an English woman, has now been overcome, but only after much research and enquiry. Spanish etiquette forbids a foreigner to belong to the Queen's personal suite Queen Ena may be Queen, of Spain first of all, but she is at heart an English girl,, ■with characteristic love of pretty trifles, new hats, blouses, and the hundred-and-one accessories of an Englishwoman's wardrobe. The hands that drape the mantilla and lasten a rose at the throat of a "grande senoia" could never arrange' the coiffure a I'Anglaiso, or tilt a Paris hat at the truly becoming angle. Andalusian and .Cast illian girls of good family have offered to fill the position ; all of them can epeak a little English, but none has ever been out ot Spain, or knows anything of England. Queen "Ena's quest was apparently nopeless, and in a letter to her mother, Princess HenTy of Battcnberg, she told her of the difficulty. Miss Bulteel, Lady-in-Waitin« to Princess Henry, remembered that her sister-in-law, Mrs. Bulteel (a niece of Lord Greufell), had a Spanish girl, Frasquita, precisely the maid required. Mtg. Bulteel was, however, just then starting for Mexico from Paris, where she then was. A hurried massage of arrest was telegrapned to her, and utrangements were soon made lor lbs transfer of Frasquita to La Granja, where she is now installed in attendance on the young Queeii. Fra6quita has lived part of her life in London, althongh a born Spaniard. She has accompanied her various mistresses to most of the great nouses ot England, and, as she pioudly affirms, dressed her ladies in crowns and tiaras for Buckingham Palace Drawing Rooms in two reigns.