“Lilybet” Sets the Fashions Baby Princess Starts Vogue for Yellow Dresses

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 4

“Lilybet” Sets the Fashions Baby Princess Starts Vogue for Yellow Dresses

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OMPING in a yellow froclc one day last April, Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. The little girl does not know, of

course, that she Is but three removes from the Throne; in fact, she has only just discovered she is a “P’incess.” It was but a day or so previous to her birthday that she knocked with her chubby fist upon a door and when her mother called “Who’s there?” answered in an important little voice: “Lilybet, the P’incess.”

Like a sensible mother (says the London correspondent of “Time”) the Duchess of York took her daughter to the country for the birthday party. “Are we going to G’annie’s or G’anma’s?” the baby asked, and was informed that the party was to be at “G’annie’s.” This was important. Her Majesty the Queen is “G’anma.” “G’annie” is the Countess of Strathmore. The particular one of “G’annie’s” estates to which they were going was St. Paul’s, Wald< •- bury, Hertfordshire; a vast yet cosy red brick house in which the Duchess of York was born in 1900. It would have been nltogeuier unsuitable to have gone to “G’annie’s” Glamis

Castle, according to legend the very same in which, as Shakespeare has told, Macbeth did murder Duncan.

An efficient staff was busy for a week sorting out the birthday pres-

ents that arrived for the little Elizabeth, but to find out which of the presents were given to the princess would be like probing a State secret. Certain it is, however, that the mechanical monkey sent by the Queen and the Cairn terrier pup from the Prince of Wales were duly presented on the birthday morn.

The baby princess has started to mould the fashions already. Yellow is her first achievement. The test was made recently of strolling into Selfridge’s and asking at the baby coun' •• about this colour. “Now two years ago, mind you,” said the salesman, “if anyone wanted yellow things for a baby we should have had to order them specially. Pink or blue or white were the colours then. Now every mother, almost, wants to buy a little yellow frock or a primrose bonnet like Princess Elizabeth’s.”