A Queen’s Reminiscences.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 11

A Queen’s Reminiscences.

Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania,, who is staying near Vienna with her daughter, Princess Heana, is working on a book of reminiscences, to be called “My Book.” Two volumes are finished (states a correspondent). The Queen Is writing in English, and begins her story in England, telling her childhood memories of how she used to play at Windsor, at the feet of her grandmother, Queen Victoria. She then takes the reader to Petersburg, where the Tsar Alexander H, her maternal grandfather, held her in his arms as a baby. She also, speaks of her childhood in Malta, where I her fattier, then Duke of Edinburgh, was Governor. The mother, Carmen Sylva, was always, says the Queen, a “mystical person, a believer in the Russian Orthodox faith, while her children were Protestants.”