SEVEN WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19785, 8 March 1927, Page 9

SEVEN WOMEN

A SMALL PARTY THE DUCHESS AND HER PERSONAL STAFF The Duchess of York and her Lady-in-Waiting, Lady Cavan, have both left an infant daughter in England. Lady Elizabeth Lambart, the tiny Cavan girl, is only slightly older than the Princess Elizabeth. While her Royal parents are absent in New Zealand and Australia, Queen Mary is acting as the guardian of the little Princess. The nurse chosen by the Duchess was for many years with her sister, Lady Elphinstone, and she is also the daughter of a trusty retainer of Lord Strathmore at Glamis Castle. For some weeks after the departure of the Duke and Duchess of York from England, Queen Mary contemplated living at Sandringham, and it was expected that she would choose to have the baby with her. Later on, however, the child was to go to her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, at St. Paul’s Walden Bury, in Hertfordshire, and afterwards at Glamis. The second Lady-in-Waiting (the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour) is a daughter of Lady Meux and her husband is related to the Earl of Beauchamp, at one time Governor of New South Wales, and his sister, Lady Mary Trefusis, who accompanied the King and Queen when they made a previous historic visit to New Zealand on the Ophir. In all there are seven women on H.M.S. Renown, the Duchess having two* maids and each of her ladies-in-waiting one.