QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY
A ROYAL CELEBRATION AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE LONDON, May 28. The Queen spent her birthday anniversary at Buckingham Paiace,” where a double celebration was held, taking in the King’s Birthday on June 3. The Queen received hundreds of congratulations, many iiom the Dominions. A family luncheon was hold, tor which the Prince of Wales especially travelled to London. The Duke or Glouces-1 ter was present, prior to his departure for Ulster. A pleasing ceicmony occurred when the Princess and other grandchildren presented gifts. The Royai servants toasted the Queen in champagne which was the King’s gift. The Sunday Dispatch pays tribute to Her Majesty as standing for unchanging things in home life —integrity, virtue and kindlisess. “Her Majesty has brought up children on the foundation of discipline/’ says the paper. “She is a woman before a Queen. Her regality heightens her other qualities, and recalls that, in spite of taking her place in the Council of State during thc King’s illness and manifold anxieties, she found time to reply to letters from subjects, such as, “Rub your husband’s chest with camphorated oil when bronchia] signs appear." “Although the Queen is sixty-seven, she rises at 8 a.m. for family breakfast at 9, and supervises the Household affairs."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 151, 28 June 1934, Page 7
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