ROYAL FAMILY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 9

ROYAL FAMILY.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE QUEEN. LONDON, April 10. An intimate Royal biography of Queen Mary (by Lady Charlotte Cavendish) reveals the Queen’s whole life with charming intimacy and tasteful restraint. The biography describes her “from the viewpoint of character and mental ability as the most outstanding member of the Royal Family, but as a. woman still comparatively unknown land often misunderstood. She inherited a childhood shyness, and though never wholly outgrown, the tendency has slowly hardened into a slight reserve that betimes has fallen like a chilly curtain between tlie British people and their Queen.” • , The biography, portrays the Queen as a strict, but tender, mother, by no means indulgent, yet a warm-hearted, sympathetic woman. “The Queen, with an inflexible oonceptien of her duties, has a 1 great dignity unknown to fail. Indeed, she. regards dignity ns necessary to her position as her crown to her coronation. She Iras no patience with women of rank who; forget what they* owe to their position.” Referring to clothes, the authoress says that the Prince of Wales, much to” his mother’s amusement, often begged her to adopt another style cf dressing. Years ago, when the styles that are favoured by the Queen were the height of fashion, she decided that they suited her as nothing before: therefore, she decided that they should be her mode of dress for the rest of her life. When the family changed its name from Guelph to Windsor the Queen was largely responsible. _ She once told a friend that Mary Windsor was vho nicest name a woman could have.