WOMAN CENTENARIAN.
DEATH NEAR SANDRINGHAM.
SEVERAL QUEENS AS VISITORS
Australian Piess Association—United Service LONDON, Nov. 14.
The death has occurred at the ago of 105 of Mis. Eleanor Tylden, who lived near Sandringham. On her 100 th birthday deceased was visited by Queen Mary and the late Queen Alexandra, also by the Queens of Norway, Spain and Rumania. Mrs. Tylden had remarkable talents. She memorised all the psalms accurately and used to relate the happenings of a century ago correctly.
The late Mrs. Eleanor Tylden, the Lady of Manor Ingoldisthorpe, which adjoins the Sandringham residence of the King, who was famous throughout the district as " Lady Bountiful," in Januarv last was expecting (he King and Queen to visit her on Jicr 105 th birthday, which .'was then approaching, in accoidance with their custom. Queen Mary, the late Queen Alexandra, the Queens of Spain, Norway and Rumania,, and the late Dowager-Empress of Russia visited her on her lOOih birthday. Mrs. Tylden in her last days still played airs a century old on her piano and read newspapers every day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 13
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178WOMAN CENTENARIAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 13
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