NEW QUEEN OF HUNGARY.

Mataura Ensign, 18 April 1917, Page 4

NEW QUEEN OF HUNGARY.

A FLATTERING PORTRAIT

i The 'Pester Lloyd' (Budapest) devotes vast spaces, as is natural, to a description of the ceremonies connected with. the recenc coronation festivities in Budapest. It is .seldom that in these gloomy years of war opportunity' Is given to the picturesque journalist to exercise his full talents. But in Budapest he has had his chance. Here is the Budapest courtier's description of the new Queen ot Hungary: 'A pale girl-face, the pallor of ivory, with softly-modelled, small, rosy lips, i silent lips, silent loving lips. The brown hair lies clingingly on the open pure ' forehead under the black veil. There is the p re-Rap ha elite slender neck, the tender, long virginal arms showing a quiet and inexpressible grace. But it is her eyes which fill everyone who sees Queen Zita with wonder—those conquering eyes with their irresistible power, those dark velvet eyes, which "an also be like steel in times of deep seriousness. "Whore have I seen this figure of tender virginal purity, with the black velvet eyes? T know. In Venice, in the quiet church of the Frari. Giovani Bellini dreamed of it centuries ago when he created his Virgin Mother. •'When the concourse of people in the church raised their first 'Klyen' the, tender ivory skin ot the Queen was 5 ' suffused with a tint like the rosy shade we see on the outer petals of the tearose. And as the last vestige of the Queen's black veil disappeared through the folding doors it was as though it had suddenly grown darker, it was like a summer evening when the red stin sinks behind the dar ktops of the pines'.