NOT A BAD GUESS
Captain Lewis Ritchie, better known as “ Bartimeus,” the naval writer, who has succeeded Sir Eric Mieville as Press Secretary at Buckingham Palace, told me of an incident which had much amused the Queen, writes Peterborough in the Daily. Telegraph, London. Lady Spencer, one-time Lady-in-Waiting, and now a county chairwoman of the Women’s Land Army, was calling at the Palace. At the gates she was stopped by a group of sightseeing American soldiers, who asked her what the letters W.L.A. on her armlet stood for.
“Women’s Land Army.” she replied. “Is that so?” said one of the party. "We thought it might be We Love America;”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 8
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