A ROYAL MOTHER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 2

A ROYAL MOTHER.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT

LONDON, Aug. 8. The Duchess of Kent has had a great success in Edinburgh, where she has won the hearts of ydung folk by her gracious and delightful manner and sympathy with them. It was eminently characteristic of her to be photographed with the Canadian schoolboys who are visiting Great Britain and at present are in Scotland, for the Duchess is exceedingly fond of young people and enters into their interests with real and kindly zest. As everyone knows, she is a devoted mother, and her children are being brought up in tho happiest of homes. One who knows says that it is delightful to see the Duke and Duchess with tho children. They are brought to their mother’s room every morning, sometimes before she is up, and often enjoy a regular game of romps with both parents before breakfast. Another marked trait of her Royal Highness is her unfailing consideration for the members of her household and staff, a trait which needless to say lias endeared her greatly to all of them. . , ... The Duchess is no believer in the Victorian method of keeping small children quiet. On tho contrary her two children’s nurses have instructions to allow Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra to work off their high spirits by singing, talking and shouting, and not to suppress them unnecessarily. The Duchess told tho matron of the Battersea Park open-air children’s shelter of her ideas of nursery discipline at a private visit. “Mine do this all the time,” she said, unperturbed by tho almost deafening noise of hundreds of toddlers playing on the grass in the shelter. The Royal mother at once took a Coronation mug that a child was holding for a milk ration and had it filled.