QUEEN" CAN TYPE.
The Queen has made Royal history at Buckingham Palace by being the first British Queen ever to use a typewriter. The Queen learnt to type some years ago finding it the simplest way to answer her large private correspondence, and now she keeps her little machine on the rosewood desk in her study overlooking the Palace gardens. Like the adjoining sitting-room this small apartment is decorated in soft blue and silver, and has antique Sheration and Chippendale furniture. Here the Queen receives her lady-in-waiting every morning, and looks through her scores of letters and gives instructions as to the necessary answers. Ladv Helen Graham, wlio has attended the Queen ever since she first became Duchess of York, superintends nil the filing and generbl working a.rraneements in the pleasant room which the ladies-in-waiting and the secretaries use as their office. Unlike most secretaries, ;tlie clever girls who work at Buckingham Palace do not have to make afternoon tea. A red-coated footman brings it to them at 4 o’clock instead 1
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 11
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172QUEEN" CAN TYPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 11
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