GLIMPSES OF ROYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 18

GLIMPSES OF ROYALTY

A DINNER AT WINDSOR • CASTLE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, May 23. In-a letter to her daughters; Mrs. J. Ai Lyons, wife of the Australian Prime Minister, gives delightful impressions of her ; visit to Windsor. "The King is a. perfect, dear," she says. "The Queen is not a fraction as stiff as the Press photographs make her. She is charming, gracious, entirely unaffected/ arid able to put-any-one at ease instantly. Any who may think Princess Marina is not very beautiful is entirely wrongs She has lovely brown eyes, and light brown hair,,and-is very vivacious. "We arrived before dinner and were shown over the castle by the Countess of Desborough, Hie Chief Lady-in-Waiting. The dinner party .was small. There were about 15 guests, . chiefly members of the Royal Family. I sat between his Majesty and the ; Duke, of Gloucester, and your father was between the King and Queen. Their Majesties; talked much about Australia and were greatly interested in our impressions of England. The Duke of Gloucester spoke pleasantly of our tea party for him in Canberra last year. "After dinner your father spoke some time with his Majesty in the study and I was with the Queen and her ladies.in waiting. Next morning before we left their Majesties paid us the great honour of calling to see us —it is not usual for them to see their guests just before they leave, we were told. Their Majesties were kindness and graciousness personified. I was impressed above all by their quiet simplicity of manner, and their genuine interest in Australia." ■: Mrs. Lyons then' tells .her. children: "We called on the Duke and Duchess of Kent at their house in Belgrave Square, to present the.two gold cups which were the Commonwealth's wedding gift to them. We wrre the first I overseas visitors to be received at their London home. The Duchess told me that she hopes to see Australia I before veryTlong," V: ■