Royal Cards

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1927, Page 27

Royal Cards

The illustration published above reproduces the Christmas Cards which have been specially prepared by Messrs. Kaphael Tuck and Sons for members of the Royal Family, each expressing to some extent the individuality of the sender. The Queen's card (1) is from a painting by Flora Pilkington, "In Lovely Summer Time," and bears the following inscription from a quotation of Leigh Hunt's:— We are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers. We thread the earth in silence In silence build our bowers-*-And leaf by leaf in silence show, till We laugh a-top sweet flowers. The garden path, with its banks of blossom, is typical of the s-veetness of Queen Mary herself. Of a quite different nature is "Britannia Leads," the King's card (2) painted by Bernard Gribble. Allan Cunningham's verse A'wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wincl that follows fast, And fills the white and ruatlinß sail. And bends the gallant m»st makes appropriate wording, and suggests the open-air character and love of ships of His Majesty. Princess Mary's card (3), "Shakespeare presenting his play, "Love's Labour Lost," before Queen Elizabeth at the Palace of Whitehall," was painted by Howard Davio. The dignity and charm of the picture echo what is everywhere known of the character of their Majesties' only daughter. Next comes the card of the Prince of Wales (4), "Pioneers of Commerce," from a painting by_ Bernard Gribble. As

to-day to the great Port of London, come the trading vessels of the world, so to Corinth was brought the rich merchandise of Italy and Spain, of Egypt and Syria. The card is appropriate for one ■who is the Prince of the greatest trading Empire in the seven seas. Last is the card of the Duke and Duchess of York (5), "Sydney Harbour," painted by Bernard Gribble. In, view 6f the recent visit of this wellloved couple to New Zealand and Australia the subject is an excellent one, even though it represents a scene 157 years old—that of Captain Cook passing through Sydney Harbour in the Endeavour, and giving it the name of Port Jackson.