A QUEEN WAITS
SHOP THAT WAS CLOSED LONDON, Nov. 17. A 16-year-old girl, Olive Powell, of Regent's Park, looks after the zoo’s shop which sells postcards and novelties. The other day the shop was closed for the winter and she was taking stock. A man knocked at the side door and asked when the shop was going to open. Olive explained why it was not going to open.
“Then will you please open it for the Queen of the Netherlands?” he said. The Queen, with a woman friend and the male attendant, was paying a surprise visit and wanted some gifts for Princess Juliana’s children.
So Olive raised ihe shutters and opened shop while Queen Wilhelmina bought postcards and novelties, including paper transfers of the Giant Panda for fixing on the Royal nursery walls.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20678, 31 January 1942, Page 6
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134A QUEEN WAITS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20678, 31 January 1942, Page 6
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