SUSAN'S ADVENTURE
CHILD MEETS THE KING
CHAT IN ROTTEN ROW
MELBOURNE, Dec. 11
• Susan Watt, who is two years old, met the King in unconventional circumstances during; the world tour of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Watt, of Sydney, from which she is returning in the liner Strathnavcr.
Mr. Watt, who is a member of the firm of Gilchrist, Watt, and Sanderson, said
on the arrival of the Sttyithnayer at Melbourne to-day that each morning in London Susan’s , nurso tbeik her to Hyde Park. SuSafi delighted to * watch the horses in Rotten Row, and one morning she said, “Hello Gee-Gee” when a particularly fine animal . went past. The horseman reined in and asked the child who she was, She replied proudly, “I am an Australian.” The horseman, whom the nurse, but not Susan, had recognised a$ the King, asked whether Susan had a horse of her own. When she said “no,” rather sadly, His Majesty asked whether she would like to feed Ins horse with some sugar, which 7ie took from his. pocket. Susan fed the horse, thanked the “nice man,” and vail off to play. The King rode on.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 3
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