ROYAL NURSERIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20983, 11 March 1938, Page 12

ROYAL NURSERIES

RELICS OF VICTORIAN DAYS LONDON, February 9. Relics of royal childhood from the nursery of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, and entertaining glimpses of home surroundings 70 years ago, will be seen at the “Daily Mail” Ideal Home Exhibition, which opens at Olympia, Kensington, on April 5. They are to be on view with original period furniture and decorations in a feature, “Grandmama’s 'deal Home,” which will bring to young families today delightful pictures of the bedroom, dining-room, kitchen, nurserj’, and with drawing-room of a home-loving mother in those days. Miss Christine Veasey, the furnishing authority, is arranging the rooms, with the co-operation cf well-known collectors of Victorian pieces. Silk stockings worn by the young Queen Victoria, of such gossamer fineness that they would easily go through a wedding ring, will be the envy of every woman who sees them. They are treasured in a neat case, in which too. are a tiny shirt of very fine linen, embroidered with the Crown and initial E., worn by “H.R.H. Albert Edward. Prince of Wales,” satin dancing slippers, and other little souvenirs from the Royal nursery. Not least attractive is a turquoise and gold brooch given by the future Edward VII when he was eight years old to his nurse, Lydia Greater. The pendant contains a lock of the little Prince's hair.