QUEEN ELIZABETH
FREQUENTLY LOOKS SURPRISED “To her credit be it said, that though Queen Elizabeth has never yet looked bewildered, she still frequently looks surprised. Each time the blushing child chosen for the occasion sidles up to her, she conveys the impression that she has never seen, still less expected to receive, such a thing as a bouquet. Can these lovely flowers really be intended for ME ? her astonished eyes seem to say. Queen Elizabeth’s ease of manner —an ease which many find so blessedly contagious—suggests a complete freedom from shyness; but, if such freedom is hers, it owes nothing to the self-con-fidence of complacency. On the contrary . . . instead of worrying—as do the anxiously diffident about what sort of impressions she may be making, she entirely forgets her own self in concentrating on the well-be-ing of whoever she is talking to . . She is blessed with the ability to appear unobstrusively dignified without ever seeming stiff . . . her innate dig nity being no adjunct to be taken off, but as inherent as the scent of a flower. —From Lady Cynthia Asquith s new book, “The Queen.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3928, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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184QUEEN ELIZABETH Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3928, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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