TEA WITH THE QUEEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 11

TEA WITH THE QUEEN

YOUNG HOSPITAj/ PATIENTS THEIR MAJESTIES' INTEREST [from our own correspondent] LONDON. Nov. 10 Within a few hours of their return from Scotland, the King and Queen were at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, and the Queen sat at a low nursery table with five little patients to have tea with them. The King smilingly stood by. "Look, Queen," exclaimed three-year-old Kenneth, holding out a sticky chocolate biscuit which he had just unwrapped from its silver paper, while Janet, aged one and a-half, Alfred, Bobby nnd Joan, aged five, went on with their tea. A picture was brought to Their Majesties from one of the wards which tbev had not time to visit. It was drawn in pencil by an eight-year-old girl, and depicted the King and Queen visiting her bedside. Over the sketch was the message, "Hurrah, Hurrah; Long Live the King and Queen!" The Queen ordered it to bo sent k) Buckingham Palace. The, Princess Royal, president of the hospital, where she was trained as a probationer nurse, led the King and Queen on their tour of the new building. There are seven floors, each with its sun terrace, on which many of the children were enjoying fresh air. Ihe King commented to the Princess .Royal on the excellent design and equipment of the hospital, which is claimed to be one of the most up-to-date children s institutions in the world. In one ward the King and Queen shook hands with the daughter of the Emperor Haili Selassie. Siie is n nurse and is very popular with the children. During a stay of nearly two hours, the King and Queen talked with of the little patients. '