QUEEN POSTPONES PARTY
FIXED FOR HOLY WEEK PRIEST'S REQUEST LONDON, .March 8. The. Queen, following a letter from an 81-year-old Anglo-Catholic priest, has altered the date of a Buckingham Palace party so that it shall not be held in holy Week. Father Herbert Williams, vicar of St. Alban's, Teddington, was the writer of th© letter. "In it," lie said, "1 pointed out that a Royal party had been arranged for Wednesday of Holy Week. 1 reminded (ho Queen' that I was an old friend of a former chaplain nt her old home at U lamia Castle. "I received a reply from Lady Helen Graham, lady-in-waiting. It was so typical of the Queen's kindly understanding that I have posted 'it up in the church porch for my parishioners to read. The letter said : "'Sir, — 1 am commanded by the Queen to acknowledge your letter and to thank you for its .contents. *• Tier Majesty, owing to the fact that Paster falls so early tiiis year, did not realise that the function, which it was proposed to hold on Wednesday, March 24, actually fell in Holy Week, but now that you have, drawn attention to it the Queen has had the date altered. " T know you will understand that, with the* great press of questions and decisions that have to be taken by Their -Majesties in these busy days, it is very easy to overlook certain facts, but the Queen regrets extremely that she had inadvertently chosen so unsuitable a date for this function.' "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 13
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251QUEEN POSTPONES PARTY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 13
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