ROYAL PATRONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 18

ROYAL PATRONS

■ The • Duchess of Gloucester is becoming known as the hospital duchess (states a London exchange). She is in great demand for. functions of this kind, •; owing, possibly, to the large Scottish element in the hospital world.

Military organisations have a claim on her patronage in view of her husband's career. She is also in demand as a patron of winter balls.

One of the organisations that obtained the Duchess of Kent as its new patron .is that for' Alexandra Rose Day. The art and university ■worlds are eager to obtain her presence at their functions. The Duke of Kent has succeeded the Duke of Windsor as president of the Royal College of Music, and the Duches will doubtless accompany her husband at times to functions held there.

Queen Elizabeth, as Duchess of York, was patroness of the industries and of societies concerned with child welfare. She has an ever-growing list of organisations of which she is president and patron. She is> commandant-in-chief of the nursing corps of St. John Ambulance Brigade, has many close link^ with slum clearance and housing schemes, arid is patroness of the Toe H League of Women Helpers, to mention only a few of her other varied interests.