QUEEN ELIZABETH

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 4

QUEEN ELIZABETH

INTEREST IN HER HOME. The many purchases which Queen Elizabeth made during her first extensive tour of the British Industries Fair clearly reflected the strong interest that she takes in her home. Her Majesty bought chintzes and bedspreads, china and glass and furnishings, as well as dress lengths for herself and her daughters. Pink proved to be one of the Queen’s favourite colours when new curtain fabrics were in question. For a bedroom that is to be redecorated at Buckingham Palace, she chose quilted old rose damask that is to, be made up into a bedspread and also into covers for the bedhead, dressing-table, and bedside table. Another pink curtain material that the Queen bought showed a Tudor design of crowns and roses, a third fabric showed a carnation print, and a fourth a Chinese Chippendale pattern. Furnishing satins also pleased the Queen. One she described as “a. darling,” and ordered immediately, a thick satin patterned in old-fashioned garden flowers, hyacinths and forget-me-nots and mignonette and lavender. She also asked if a Regency design of chrysanthemum patterned satin could be had for her in pink. New net curtains will shortly be hung at the palance. Queen Elizabeth showed a preference for white Regency nets with a shadow stripe, and means to- have them made up with frilled edgings. These nets are finished by a special process and let in the maximum of sunshine, while absorbing the minimum of moisture. This means that dust settles only on the top of the material and is not absorbed by it, so that cleaning them is accomplished simply by dipping them into water, without any rubbing. For one of the palace bathrooms Queen Elizabeth ordered curtains of a blue waterproof material, patterned in a silver spot, together - with sets of white guest towels, embroidered with pictures of the palace, Westminster Abbey and other historical buildings. At another stand, she again showed her liking for the quilted vogue by ordering a rose bedroom set, consisting of bedspread, pillows, and quilt, made on the marocain side of furnishing satin and quilted in a zig-zag design. Her personal purchases included a lace dress length in the soft pink shade that is. known as Margaret Rose. In this particular design the pink pattern is worked on a nigger brown background, while a second lace frock for Her Majesty is to be made of flesh-coloured cire lace in a fine cobwebby pattern. New nursery tale fabrics, stamped with nursery rhyme figures, were bought for the two little Princesses and one’ pale pink cotton for Princes Margaret Rose is cheerfully printed in a design cif small red circles.