COSTLY BABY

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 17

COSTLY BABY

DURE HAS TO PAY £5,000 RIGHT ROYAL FEES LONDON, August 26. When the Duchess of York set her heart on Glamis Castle as tho birthplace of the new Princess it necessitated all sorts of special arrangements and involved extra cost totalling over £5,000. For instance, the baptismal fee to be paid to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Lang, alone will be £SOO. Two other clergymen who will assist him in performing the ceremony will receive £SO each. Sir Henry Sixnson’s usual foe for a maternity case in London is 200 guineas. He is receiving 20 guineas a day in Scotland, where Tiis total stay may extend 60 days. Mr Frank Reynolds, the surgeon in attendance, is receiving 15 guineas a dav. The direct telephone connection which was installed between Glamis Castle and the London house of the Duke and Duchess cost £IOO. The registrar of births who is_ attending at Glamis Castle to register the birth of tho Princess is receiving 100 guineas for his services. The Glamis tenants and servants are giving a gold cup as a baptismal gift. All tho servants at the castle, and, in addition, all the Duke’s servants, receive special gratuities in celebration of the occasion. NEARLY 91b. Tho ‘ News Chronicle ’ learns that tho new Princess weights just under 91b. She is a sturdy child, with blue eyes and fair hair. All yesterday Princess Elizabeth was most excited. When at length she was allowed to see her baby sister —the silken coverlet was drawn back—she clapped her hands with delight. Her immediate desire was to take the baby outside and nurse her. The Home Secretary, Mr Clynes, told the ' Daily Mail ’ that he was ushered into one of the most ancient rooms of Glamis Castle about an hour before tho birth. A little after 10 p.m. Sir Henry Simson entered and announced that a daughter, had been born. “He invited me to follow him through the long stone corridors to the Duchess’s sitting-room, where I saw a fine chubby-faced girl lying in a cot, wide awake,” Mr Clynes said. “ She shouted lustily, drawing attention to a fine pair of lungs. “ Everyone, including the Duke of York, was overjoyed and happy, thinking not of heirs but of babies. Hero was one of the finest.”