PEN PICTURE OF QUEEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18541, 11 April 1930, Page 9

PEN PICTURE OF QUEEN.

Charming Royal Story. SOME CHARMING TOUCHES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 11, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 10. An intimate Royal biography of her Majesty Queen Mary, by Lady Charlotte Cavendish, revealed the Queen’s whole life with charming intimacy and tasteful restraint. The biography describes the Queen “from the viewpoint of character and mental ability” as the most outstanding member of the Roj-al Family, but as a woman still comparatively unknown and often misunderstood. The Queen inherited from childhood a shyness, and "though her Majesty has never wholly outgrown the tendency, it has slowly hardened into a slight reserve, that betimes has fallen like a chilly curtain between the British people and their Queen.” The author portrays her as a strict but tender mother, and no means indulgent, but a warm-hearted and sympathetic woman. The Queen, with an inflexible conception of duties "has great dignity jvhich has not been known to fail; indeed she regards dignity as necessary to her position, as her gown to her coronation. She has ho patience with women of rank who forget what they owe to their position. Referring to clothes, the authoress says that the Prince of Wales, much to his mother’s amusement, often begged her to adopt another style of dressing years ago, when the styles which favoured the Queen were the height of fashion. She decided they suited her as nothing before, and probably nothing would after; therefore she decided that this should be her mode of dress for the rest of her life. When the family changed its name from ‘‘Guelph,’’ to "Windsor,” the Queen was largely responsible. She once told a friend that Mary Windsor was the nicest name a woman could have.