PRINCESS LOUISE

Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 24

PRINCESS LOUISE

’Princess Louise, the only, surviving daughter of Queen Victoria, is 87 years old, and she still lives, says the Manchester ‘ Guardian,’ in her part of Kensington Palace, where her mother was born and where, 98 years ago, her' mother learned she was a queen. Princess Louise had tho reputation of being the best-dressed, indeed, the only welldressed, daughter of Queen Victoria, and it is said by her friends at Court that as years go oh she is better and better dressed, and a model to all elderly ladies. Her husband, tho Duke of Argyll, died in 1914. She \vas the daughter of the Prince Consort who inherited some of his interests in the arts. She had several artist friends, the chief of them, Sir Edward Boehm, who taught her sculpture, and Sir John Millais. At one time her parties at Kensington Palace were the only ones in Royal society where artists could be seen. She took her art, as she took life, very seriously. She never went to Ascot or Epsom, and probably never attended a race meeting, and although she went to Marlborough House to dinner, she never attended a dance there, and never danced at a Court ball.