Dolls With Luggage

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1938, Page 20

Dolls With Luggage

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 11. ""PRANCE" and "Marianne," the . dolls 'presented by the children of France to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret,, have arrived in London from-Parish but the Princesses will not be; able to see these lovely presents- for many weeks because tliey are on a holiday in Scotland. The dolls travelled: wi*h. two toy motbr-cars and 20 pieces of luggage containing frocks of the latest fashion. They were, taken to the French Embassy—in a packing case— before going on to Buckingham Palace. The packing case weighs one and three quarter tons and is 14 feet long. It is addressed to "Les Princesses Elizabeth et Margaret Rose," and bears the inscription: "Envoi de Madame Georges Bonnet au norn Dcs Enfants de France." Mmc Georges Bonnet is, the wife of the French [Foreign Minister.

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The suggestion-to send the presenl was made on the occasion of the vis: to Paris of the King and Queen, an was enthusiastically received by th French people. Hundreds of thousand of children subscribed the money t buy these lovely presents. A CAR FOR EACH DOLL. One doll is a blonde and the othe is a brunette, therefore one is fai and the other is dark. They hay both got lovely curly hair, quite shor The clothes are wonderful, for eac doll has about forty dresses, and the are all made in the latest Frenc; styles. To keep these dresses in goo condition there are dressing cases an suit cases, and twenty tiny trunks, ab embossed with the Royal Crown. A the , best French workmanship an taste have been concentrated on thes interesting little people. They ai sure to become valuable heirlooms an probably they will be seen in

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