PRINCESS AT A PARTY.
WAND WOULD NOT WORK. I'rincess Elizabeth waved her fairy wand and tried to make a whilo handkerchief (urn into the Union .Jack. It wouldn't! Funny! Because (Iks wand of the man who took rabbits out of hats did . . . It was at, the parly at Lady Londonderry's house in Park Lane, slates a London writer. There were 130 children (here—all in fancy dress, with Princess Elizabeth, the bcllo of the ball, dressed as a. fairy princess, with glittering crown and star-pointed magic wand. Tho wand that wouldn't work . . . !
The party was given bv Lady Londonderry, her daughter, Lady Maureen Stanley, and Lady Plunkct. Princess Elizabeth went as (he special guest of nine-year-old Lady Mary Stewart. J lie two are firm friends; their gardens almost join and they spend many hours playing together. She joined in the dancing, beinj, partnered by nine year-old Michael Slan lev, the sou of Lady Maureen Stanley. She romped wilh (he other children when gaily-coloured balloons fell in a shower from the. ceiling, and stared, wide-eyed with wonder, at the conjuror who produced Mie customary rabbit, out of his top hat and made the Union Jack out of bis white handkerchief. Arid it was not until after 6 o'clock that the Duchess of York took a tired, but happy little fairy princess home to bed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 4
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