“MAY WE COME IN?”
THE KING AND QUEEN An Edinburgh housewife, duster in hand, who opened her door a few weeks ago in answer to a knock, was surprised to find the King and Queen waiting on her doorstep. “May we come in?” asked the Queen, with a smile, and the woman, Mrs Robert Sclater, was so astonished that she could hardly whisper, “Yes, certainly,” to the Royal visitors. The occasion was a visit by the King and Queen to the Edinburgh Corporation estate at Prestonfield, in connection with a slum-clearance scheme which their Majesties inaugurated seven years ago. Still grasping her duster, Mrs Sclater, in cap and apron, showed the King and Queen over her little threeroomed house, and blushed with pride when the Queen said, “You have a very nice little home here, and you Iteep it perfectly.” Mrs Sclater’s husband, a ccal salesman, was out on his rounds, and missed the Royal visit, but a next door neighbour, Mrs Bialeck, who had looked in for a morning cup of tea, met the King and Queen by accident and shook hands with them. Mrs Sclater said afterwards: “I cid not have the least idea that the Kmg and Queen were coming. At first when I heard the knocker, as I wis dieting the kitchen, 1 thought it was another of those canvassers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19904, 14 September 1934, Page 12
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224“MAY WE COME IN?” Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19904, 14 September 1934, Page 12
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