DUCHESS OF KENT
TOYS BOUGHT AT SLOUGH ASSISTANT'S SURPRISE • LONDON, April 20. A shop assistant, Florence Short, aged 22, was greatly surprised when she realised that a customer to whom she had been selling sixpenny toys in a shop at Slough, Buckinghamshire, was the Duchess of Kent. The girl was busy serving another customer when the duchess came to the counter, and thought, when she first glanced at her, that she looked like the duchess. Then another girl salcf: "Look, is not that lady like the duchess?" . "She pointed to a toy windmill and me to wrap it up, and then bought a oair of efuo*. rings and a kite," said Florence. "She spent Is 2a with me." The duchess spent half an hour in the store and visited the food and haberdashery counters. She had to wait on the pavement until her car, which was held up by the holiday traffic, pulled into the kerb.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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