THE LITTLE PRINCESSES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4047, 13 May 1938, Page 7

THE LITTLE PRINCESSES

THEIR LIKES IN CLOTHES. • Princess Elizabeth still finds the process of being fitted for her clothes a very trying ordeal, says Lady Cynthia Asquith. Her younger sister already takes far greater interest in dress, and is, indeed, very particular, both as to the style and cut of her garments. She likes gentle colours — what dressmakers call pastel while her elder sister prefers rather bright colours, especially yellow. In the mornings they usually wear kilts and jerseys and cardigans, and all their everyday garments are delightfully comfortable. For riding they wear jodhpurs and jockey caps, and each of them is the proud possessor of a hunting crop which was once the property of their beautiful greatgrandmother, Queen Alexandra. On special occasions they appear in lovely clothes. One can imagine Queen Elizabeth’s delight in having two pretty daughters to dress, and how much loving care goes to choosing the petalled frocks of palest pink, primrose yellow and speedwell blue; all the delicate attire in which the two little Princesses look like one hedgerow flower after another. Princess Margaret likes to have a great many frills on her frocks, for she wishes to resemble a ballerina as closely as possible. Her favourite doll, Belinda, must always be dressed exactly like her, and whenever her own growth necessitates the letting down of a hem, Belinda’s dress must also be lowered. Before each journey Princess Margaret packs Belinda’s clothes in the favourite doll’s own travelling trunk. On every fine day she is taken out for an airing in a little peramulator, and every night she is tucked up in a bed by her owner. I think Psincess Margaret is fonder of dolls than her sister has ever been. Belinda and her companions have to endure very vigorous hair brushing and frequent opening and shutting of their eyes. But at present the favourite plaything of the Princesses, one they must share —a super-doll, with whose hair and eyes Princess Margaret is not allowed to tamper, i» their very engaging cousin Prince Edward of Kent.