COMING ROYAL TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 13

COMING ROYAL TOUR.

THE DUCHESS' BOUDOIR. PREPARING THE RENOWN. LONDON. Nov. 9. " Ordinary blue carpets amy suit sailors, but they do not match my furniture/ 6 said the Duchess of York, who is applying her own ideas in the after cabin of H.M.S. Renown, which she has selected as her boudoir. The walls have been painted ivory white, the carpets are mole-coloured, the curtains are of blue cretonne and the chair coverings of chintz. The ordinary naval furniture has been supplemented by settees, chairs and tables from the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The walls are decorated with photographs of the baby daughter of the Duke and Duchess and the Sing and Queen, and friends. In the fore-cabin, which will be (hedining room, the furniture is unchanged, beyond the addition of rugs. The officers' cabins will accommodate the suites. Additions are being built, and three quickfiring guns have been removed from one cabin to the roofs in order to create a short promenade deck, on which the Duko and Duchess will receive visitors. Journalists travelling on the ship will be housed on the bridge.; v . >• : The Renown has been painted a pearlgrey, which in the sunlight turns to silver. ' •