The Queen's Tasks

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 19

The Queen's Tasks

There are many household tasks that the Queen likes to undertake when she has time unexpectedly on her hands, both at Sandringham and at Buckingham Palace (says a London writer). The-washing and the examining of the several dinner and breakfast sets of exquisite Sevres and Worcester china at the Palace, which is done by experts in a locked room, is supervised by the Queen. For her intimate friends she has special services taken from their cases that line the walls of the china room. This arrangement ensures that the beauty of the plates can be seen as if' in a gallery, as the famous 'Napoleonic: dinner service is arranged in the'.Salle dcs Assiettes at JFontainebleau. The work of arranging and cataloguing and photographing the Queen's collections of jade, enamels, historical objets dart, lacquer, scent bottles of cut-glass, Tanbridge Wells ware and miniature objects,, is always- going,, on,, ,and the Queen is aijletoget "up-to-date Tvith some of her latest purchase?; The cap ,of the tapestries aiid enibjdideries in the * Royal palaces is another ' housewifely duty, which vt"ho Queen takes on herself, and much .reading in.connection with the history of' each Royal homo and of its belongings, especially the pictures, is done by the Queen, or by one of' her ladies while she knits, crochets, or embroiders.