Princess Sees Seamy Side Of London Life
(11 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 7. Princess Margaret visited an East London juvenile court in London’s slumland today. She took great interest in the proceedings and leaned forward to study a girl aged 16 who was said by her mother to be beyond control. The girl stayed out until midnight one night and did not go home on another. “I think she gets lured by other women," the mother said. The Princess looked on approvingly when the mother and the magistrate decided tjiat the girl should be sent to a hostel for six months to make good. Many children and parents mistook Princess Margaret for a probation officer during her visit to court. She asked to sit between the probation officers where she would be least noticed and would be able to ask questions. The Princess listened with her chin sunk in her hand and the papers of the cases open before her.* She heard one girl aged 16 scream and swear as sh’e was dragged away by policemen after her committal to a remand home for being beyond control. The probation officer said: “The Princess wanted to know what led children into crime and how we thought it could be stopped.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22889, 8 March 1949, Page 5
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