THE SECOND COURT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 18

THE SECOND COURT

QUEEN'S MAGNIFICENCE

The second Court of the season held at Buckingham Palace, almost outbid its precedessor in dazzling pageantry, writes a correspondent.

One of the most splendid things seen in this setting of magnificence was the Queen's train. It was executed in peach and silver English-woven brocade, with a lily fte-; sign embroidered ia pearls and silver. The dress was of silver chiffon lanie, with an overdress of pale peach colour' chiffon, embroidered, too, with pearls and silver. The Queen's pearl-and-dia-mond tiara had swinging pearl drops. She wore the Order of the Garter and family prders. Youth was more proportionately represented than it was at.the first Court, when so many foreign' were made. Some of the loveliest girls of Mayfair became lovelier still under the excitement of going through the palace corridors and waiting their turn for presentation.

One debutante later^ confessed that she had one of her great thrills when her father's motor-car drove through the couryard of the Palace.

"I had never been to Buckingham Palace before," she declared, "and I thought the entrance Was simply wonderful in the twilight, with the golden lamps blazing through the doorway and the coloured uniforms of the special bodyguard of yeomanry linking up the corridors.

"I had a second tremeu'dou% moment when we heard the band play 'God Save the King,' and the King and Queen came in, . the Queen looking, wonderful in J}er., peach and silver gown. And, of course; a third one. when it was actually my turn to bow. But that was soon over. ■•■. ":.

"The men's uniforms, were- really more attractive than the women's dresses.- They were so varied and handsome!." : *