HISTORIC LACE CAP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 21

HISTORIC LACE CAP

QUEEN MARY'S PROPERTY LOAN TO LONDON MUSEUM [from otra OWN correspondent] LONDON, Jan. 7 An interesting loan to the London Museum is a tiny white cap that looks as though it was specially made in the nineteenth century for some favourite baby doll. It belonged to tho Duke of Windsor, and has been lent by Queen Mary. The cap is composed on top entirely of elaborately arranged loops of narrow white baby ribbon, mixed with fine white hand-made lace, so that tho cap, from a distance, suggests the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Attached to each side of the cap is a long white satin string to tne under chin The Duke wore it in 1894 when he was only a few weeks old. but he must have outgrown it quickly, as the ribbons and lace are unrumpled and still look almost new.

Some of Queen Victoria's lace was worn this week, when the baby daughter of the late Earl of Londesborough was christened. It was lent by tne Marchioness of Cnrisbrooke, the baby's aunt, who mounted the laco on satin and made it into a ro|re for Aho christening of her own daughter, Lady Iris Mountbatten, 18 years ago, _ The lace was given by Queen Victoria to her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, who is Lady Iris' grandmother.