A BABY PRINCESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 370, 13 September 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

A BABY PRINCESS

DANCES TO MILITARY BAND A large number of the twenty thousand people who gathered in one of the parks in Brussels for the great patriotic ceremony to celebrate tho centenary of Belgium’s independence paid

less attention to the speeches delivered by King Albert, tho Presidents of the Chamber and Senate, the Prime Minister. and the burgomaster of Brussels (says the Daily Mail), Princess Josephine Charlotte, the two-and-a-half-years-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, was the cause of their distraction. Dressed in a little, white fashionable frock, with a bunch of forget-me-nots at her waist, she was not stil] a minute. Wriggling off her mother’s lap she climbed on to that of a lady-in-waiting, and then suddenly spotted M. Jaspar, the Prime Minister in his brilliantly decorated uniform.

She ran across to him, had herseif lifted on to his knees and made a close inspection of the many orders he was wearing. Her movements were followed with interest by the public, who seemed to have entirely forgotten the real purpose of the assembly. When a military hand struck up "to bring the cerenicijy to an end the Princess lifted tho sides of her frock and had executed several steps of a dance of her own invention before her mother stopped her. For consolation she ran back to AL Jaspar, who is as gentle with children as he is stern with unruly members in the House,