ROMANCE OF A SOLDIER BOY.
IN LOVE WITH KOYALTY. I HIS PRESENT DECLINED. When James F«uier -was a Boldier boy in the AimerioaiQ * Ciwil War a matramianaal agency eenit !hdrn the picture of a beautiful ■wvwnian. This be cherished ever emce, fondly calling >fcbe original his future -wife. Recently the leaaraeict *bat <th.c photograph ■was taa* ol Queen Alexandra. He wrote her a letter telling "her of (his boyish lore, and offered .'her a gift of «3i (hosiery from Ihds factory. Miss Knoilys, replying for tihe Queen, TTOote:— " As her Majesty has fern obliged to anake it a rule inever <to accept presents from amy one wflbh -whom «rhe Shag mat "the pleasure of a personal a*xjaamtan<se*6he is unable to avail herself of Mr Fenner'a present." .: ■ ■ .- ■ ""■*''->. ' . ■ ' . . ;
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 4
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126ROMANCE OF A SOLDIER BOY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 4
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