THE BRITISH QUEEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7

THE BRITISH QUEEN

AN INTIMATE" BIOGRAPHY SPLENDID ATTRIBUTES LONDON, April 10. An intimate Royal biography of Her Majesty Queen Mary by Lady Charlotte Cavendish reveals the Queen's whole life with charming intimacy and tasteful restraint. It describes Her Majesty, from the viewpoint of character as gentle, and says that for ability she: is the most outstanding member of the Royal Family, but as a woman she is still comparatively unknown, and often misunderstood. She inherited in childhood a shyness which she has never wholly outgrown, hut its has slowly hardened into a slight reserve that at times falls like a chilly curtain between the British people and their Queen, Sho portrays Queen Mary as a strict but tender mother, by no means indulgent, yefc a warm-hearted and sympathetic woman. A Queen with an inflexible conception of her duties, she has great dignity, unknown to fail, indeed, she regards dignity just as necessary to her position as her crown to hei coronation. She has no . patience with women of rank who forget what they owe to their position. ■•• Referring to clothes,' the. authoress says : "The Prince of Wales 5 much to his mother's amusement, often' begged her to adopt another style' ;o'f dressing years ago, when the styles which were favored by the Queen were thai height of fashion.' She decided that-tliey suited her as nothing before and probably nothing would after. Therefore,; she decided that that should be her mode of dress for the rest of her life." When the family changed its name from Guelph to Windsor, the Queen was largely responsible. She once, told a friend that Miry Windsor was the nicest name a woman could 1 have.: